Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
Introduction Filmed during the 1990s and released on PBS in 2000, Goin’ to Chicago is a sixty minute film about the largest internal movement of people in United States history—the...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...has absorbed them, is using them, and will build upon them. In some places, social change comes in the volcanic eruption of revolution, while in academia change generally comes from...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...changes to the early voting schedule have altered the ways in which African American churches organize their early voting campaigns. According to Susan Saulny of The New York Times, these campaigns...
Murray Mountain, North Carolina
...it's lit up and is never going to change. The quiet is gone and it's never going to change." Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Atlanta had risen to 25.2 percent.5Truman A. Hartshorn and Keith R. Ihlanfeldt, "Growth and Change in Metropolitan Atlanta," in The Atlanta Paradox: A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...in a chapter on "Fiction Writing and Social Change." Gray understands the irony of the word "aberration," its message that the canonized "southern" writing has not taken this path into...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...violence against Black people—and all other forms of systemic racial oppression—and demanding accountability and meaningful change. We support the Black Lives Matter movement, and we denounce white supremacy, police brutality,...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...on projects involving geographic information systems and the humanities. He is completing a dissertation on spatial changes attending emancipation at the University of Virginia. About the Interactive Mapmaker Nathan Altice...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...the purposes of discussing a Jim Crow system that he views as inherently of the South. "Change was brewing for the South, and though for many the change brought hope,...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...never ended."6The precise motivations behind the 1979 changes in the Muscogee Constitution remain deeply contested. Defenders of the 1979 Constitution maintain the change in tribal citizenship was motivated by a...