The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...mortgage foreclosures between November 2009 and January 2010 continued to rise in western and southern states. Nine states in the South and four in the West had bank card delinquency...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...between Muscogee (Creek) inhabitants and encroaching white Georgians.) The Constitution article references the former site of Floyd's Mill, near where Bethlehem Baptist Church now stands, just north of the Clark...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Accountability, GHS Index, October 2019, https://www.ghsindex.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-Global-Health-Security-Index.pdf. Yet, when the virus began to spread throughout the nation, political and public health leaders overlooked or failed to respond promptly and effectively to...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...Lomax/Zora Neal Hurston Field Trip of 1935 . . . As Described by Alan [Lomax] to Stetson Kennedy," Zora Neale Hurston Box 1, Stetson Kennedy Papers, uncataloged, n.d., George A....
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Between 1960 through 1970, non-Black Latino activists Elizabeth “Betita” Mártinez, Maria Varela, and Luis Zapata lent their support to the movement. As first-time travelers to/through...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...ideals of the good modern man and woman, between the later nineteenth century and the middle decades of the twentieth—the anti-colonial moment in India’s colonial and postcolonial history. Parallel shifts...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...performance, improve efficiency, improve productivity!"(Hakim) What does that mean? It can mean better technology, not using 100 parts when 50 can do, and— The manager at Health-Tex would just lie...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...the Savannah River about a hundred miles west of Charleston, in an area now known as "Milbury," an unincorporated part of southeastern Allendale County. The tract is about six miles...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...places better" (xv). I wonder whether Oak Ridgidness is really exceptional. Much of everyday life that took place there is familiar to most Americans: racism and segregation continue there, as...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...comfortable "back east" and in such august company. To Hardwig's mind, this image elegantly captures the "enormous gulf between the communities depicted in Murfree's dialect stories about the Tennessee mountains...