Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...2.6 jobs for American workers. Asian immigrants frequently come with or earn advanced degrees. What are the policy implications of this phenomenon for the region? What does this blind spot...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...unmixed with Negro blood,” reads an excerpt from a letter by the head of the Bureau of Statistics explaining that under Virginia’s 1924 Racial Integrity Law, Indians would be relabeled...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...but that's not how she would do it.” And I was like, “Okay, I get that that's not how you would do it. But the way that you would do...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...and two together from what he'd told me. His squad didn't do that more than a couple days. The officers immediately realized that it wasn't working, that it was dangerous,...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...Parcel and Taylor point out that "the heightened partisanship and polarization that was taking place in national, state, and county politics" coincided with the controversy over Wake's school policies: "Events...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...it is here that we learn the way that mental institutions operated in the wake of slavery. Despite Galt's insistence on 'intermingling,' Gonaver shows that Black patients in Virginia's asylums...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...Ruth had to tell the dying Billy that his mother would not visit him. “I finally told him that his mother wasn’t coming but that I would be there with...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...significant keyboardist/vocalist role for the Stones. "Chuck is our direct link to Stu," says guitarist Keith Richards. "Without that continuity, the Stones would not be the Stones." Leavell describes his...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...concerned about the neighborhood. I also noticed a broken window on the side that faces Lakeside which looked like it could possibly have been made by a bullet. Is that...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...his and later generations with the idea "that there was historical logic in the right of secession . . . that the South fought its fight gallantly . . ....