Editors
...New Communities in the U.S. South,” a collaboration among the Highlander Center, Southern Regional Council and CROW, financed by the Ford, Rockefeller and C.S. Mott Foundations. Smith is the author...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...was empty sky. Reluctantly Lydde dropped her eyes, lower, lower, to a vast plain of grass and rock. Where the crest of Fallam had been, past where Black had been,...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...legislature to appoint more "business friendly" members. In contrast to their concern for what GOP lawmakers called "job creators," there was little interest in the problems of workers. By the...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Political Economy of Southern Racism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987). Georgia had the second highest number of lynchings from 1890–1900.75Susan Olzak, "The Political Context of Competition: Lynching and Urban Racial...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...signifies for Glissant the whole environment comprising the poem, human and nonhuman animals, vegetation, rocks, lavas, and 'nature' and 'culture.' The latter terms lose meaning since they exist in a...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...sunset rivers of hope where the worst of us, the very worst of all, might find a seventh chance. Heaven And yet I don't want not to believe in, little...
Palomares Bajo
...a no-contact policy with townsfolk, a formula for global speculation and local resentment. "Little heed to the outside world"? Little knowledge of Cold War geopolitics? "The whole subject ... an...