Religion and the US South
...of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.05439/. Jews were an early presence in southern colonies, and by 1820 South Carolina had the largest Jewish population in the United States. Early...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...position, many offering outright support for the state's Democratic political organization. US Senator Harry F. Byrd, for example, was the leader of Virginia's Democratic organization, came up in business as...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...Electronic Library http://www.flelibrary.org/ The Florida Electronic Library is a project of the Florida Department of State's Division of Library and Information Services. It is an effort to gather the diverse...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Rates in July 2013," National Conference of State Legislatures, August 20, 2013, http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/labor/state-unemployment-update.aspx; Robbie Brown, "North Carolina Approves Steep Benefit Cuts for Jobless in Bid to Reduce Debt," The New...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Austin Now, KLRU, http://www.klru.org/austinnow/archives/gentrification/index.php, accessed August 31, 2011; Ben Wash, interview with the author, March 30, 2007; "Ben's Long Branch Bar-B-Q," Southern Foodways Alliance Southern BBQ Trail, http://www.southernfoodways.org/interview/bens-long-branch-bar-b-q/, accessed August...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...the 1990s, its suburbs added [twenty one]."16Brookings Institution, "Atlanta in Focus: A Profile from Census 2000." http://www.brook.edu/es/urban/livingcities/atlanta.htm (November 2003). As Atlanta's booming economy fueled residential and commercial expansion into the...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...website: www.seanhill.org. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In these excerpts from a December 17, 2008 conversation, Sean Hill talks about sources and influences of the poems in Blood Ties & Brown...
The Place of Appalachia
...his essay in this volume accuses progressive citizen organizations and organizers of failing to address racism in the region in any systematic and effective manner. See "Racism and Organizing in...
Genres of Southern Literature
...of the US South and an expressive art — texts identified as belonging to a particular history, social organization, and cultural imaginary. In defining a text's "southernness," the matter of...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...hands."5Audie Cornish, "Artist Kara Walker Draws Us Into Bitter History With Something Sweet," National Public Radio, May 16, 2014, accessed June 30, 2014, http://www.npr.org/2014/05/16/313017716/artist-kara-walker-draws-us-into-bitter-history-with-something-sweet. Sugar Sublime: Kara Walker, Domino sugar,...