Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Georgia and Alabama along the Chattahoochee River; in the 1970s and 1980s, US industrialists moved into northern Mexico, opening "maquiladoras," factories that import materials and equipment for assembly or manufacturing...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...commemoration, theory, qualitative methods, participatory action research and social movements in Appalachia and Northern Ireland. Dr. Scott's work appears in Rural Sociology, Qualitative Sociology, Journal of Appalachian Studies, Appalachian Journal,...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...take advantage of work in construction, forestry, and oil production, started this shift in the wake of the destruction by the hurricane. Mexico only first appeared among the top-five sending...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino children. (Applause.) These families should be free to choose the public, private, charter, magnet, religious, or...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...to appeal to the most viewers and over time not to lose viewers.41Paul Weaver, "Newspaper News and Television News," in Television as a Social Force: New Approaches to TV Criticism,...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...I began to investigate the possibility some seven years ago, I was surprised to learn that it was perfectly legal to have a coop in Decatur. So I approached my...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...of the Ohio, together numbered approximately one hundred thousand troops as they approached the city, but only about twenty-seven thousand of them fought in the Battle of Atlanta.11Woodworth, Nothing But...
The Place of Appalachia
...maintain family and community ties. County Economic Status in Appalachia, Fiscal Year 2013, Appalachian Regional Commission. Population Change in Appalachia, 2000–2010, Appalachian Regional Commission. Unemployment Rates in Appalachia, 2010 (County...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...century; the forms of violence the larger nation imposes on Appalachia in its appetite for Appalachian resources. Appalachian people are not more violent than other Americans, however, despite popular narratives...