Just a number, Old Bryce Hospital Cemetery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2007
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Numbers," CCM Update, March 29, 1999; and Lindy Warren, "Top 15 Impact-Makers in 1997," CCM Update, December 22, 1997. The only subgenre of white Christian music that remains relatively strong...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...
Congregation
...sign my name in the book, write R0470—his number— and agree to a search, I stand as if I would make a snow angel in the air, and the woman...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...change was long overdue: the uprooting of segregation (though not the racial face of poverty), with its "colored only" drinking fountains, restrooms, streetcar seating, and other vestiges of separate-but-hardly-equal affronts...
Off-Season
FOR FIELDWORKERS AND FARMERS LIKE ME Early, on grayest morning, when we nettled deep in between rows, tobacco and sweet potato, both two seasons away from planting, you reasoned I...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...season one, Rust and Marty uncover strange genealogies and rigged systems, sometimes reluctantly and always at great cost to their lives and security. They commit awful violence against people, such...
"Aint that Something?"
...feet off the mountain in order to get to the coal seams. The "overburden," which includes the mountains and toxic mining waste, is then dumped into streams and valleys. The...
Mississippi Delta
...drawn half oval." Elevation goes from 205 above sea level below Memphis to eighty feet at Vicksburg, averaging 125 feet in height from Greenwood to Greenville. Flooding has been endemic,...