Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
...Both CASC and SDCA distributed leaflets and information to people leaving church services about their respective views on American involvement in Central America. Courtesy of Duke University Archives, Durham, North Carolina....
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...Trethewey's representations of southern identity comprise "a repetitious act of reconstituting nonbelonging and exclusion."15Thadious M. Davis, Southscapes: Geographies of Race, Region, and Literature (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011), 58....
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...of Bush Creek, North Carolina, said, "Even when I was growing up we raised almost everything we ate. You'd buy a little coffee if you wanted it, but we never...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...York: Oxford University Press, 2016) and Defending White Democracy: The Making of a Segregationist Movement and the Remaking of Racial Politics, 1936–1965 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2011)....
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...to express openly his essential sexual desires."4McKay Jenkins, The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999), 103;...
The Black Belt
...Georgia and the Carolinas in an epidemic of "Alabama Fever." Following the forced removal of Native Americans, the Black Belt emerged as the core of a rapidly expanding plantation area....
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...The Yemassee: A Romance of Carolina, New York, 1844. Published by Harper & Brothers. Image is in public domain. In Antoine's embedded narrative, the master Alfred is depicted as a...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
"Made by Mary Louisa Snoddy Black—‘The Tulip’ design. Cousin Theresa Snoddy helped quilt it." History: The Tulip was one of the most popular appliqué patterns in the Carolina upcountry during...