Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...the federal government, they may become independent at any time with a majority vote consisting of two-thirds of adult residents, at which time all federal programs associated with this Act...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...planters attempted to deny them. In their best moments, these essays transition into something resembling historical ethnography. White's contribution brings us into the underground economy of Louisiana's slaves who pieced...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...reenactors were white, a number of African American reconstructed regiments, such as the Massachusetts 54th USCT, regularly participate in these events. The reenactment phenomenon has proliferated globally to include battles...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...or even by our own memories, but by a work of a single photographer, Walker Evans."1Kramer quoted in Tom Rankin, "'The Injuries of Time and Weather,'" Southern Cultures 13, no....
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...1955, the town served as a safe harbor when Black reporters came to Mississippi to cover Emmett Till's murder trial.4Olive Arnold Adams, Time Bomb: Mississippi Exposed and the Full Story...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...months I traveled from Tallahassee to Pensacola several times to help repair roofs, clear downed trees, repair hurricane walls, etc. During the down times, in between repair projects, I would...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...example, a timeline of oil production, entitled "Depths of Addiction," bisects its two pages horizontally, with period pictures of ever-taller drilling rigs arrayed above it. Below, the blue-black of murky...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...