When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...then returned to North Carolina, where he found work with the Charlotte-based Miss Black Universe pageants. His move back south was part of a national trend. Since the 1970s, the...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...the painted and sequined deer head sweatshirt that Ree wears in several key scenes – are part of a carefully constructed ecology of the totemic that pervades the film. The...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Dallas, the "deep" or far side of Elm Street, between the Central Expressway and Fair Park. We passed through Deep Ellum several times without ever knowing its name; nor would...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...for good food, there is also a yearning for an idealized, pastoral past and an agrarian vision of virtue and abundance. So many city dwellers descend from rural roots —...
Our Backward Revolution
...number of lawsuits challenging these tax-exempt segregated schools, a policy eventually affirmed by the Supreme Court in Bob Jones v. United States (1983). Right-wing Republican activists like Paul Weyrich claimed...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...and natural environs, remain buried under a hospital's out-parcels and parking garages.9Robert J. Austin, "'Its Origin Steeped in Mystery': The Sorry Saga of St. Petersburg's Shell Mound Park," The Florida...
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An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...Ponchatoula Artisans Fame," Ponchatoula Times, July 31, 1986, http://ptl.stparchive.com/pageimage.php?paper=PTL&year=1986&month=7&day=31&page =1&mode=F&base=PTL07311986P01&title=The%20Ponchatoula%20Times. In smaller communities this sort of caution wasn't uncommon. Other communes—usually those in urban centers or college towns in the...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...that roars, runs, and barks—for those of you from parts other than rural eastern Oklahoma). One day in his Weleetka High School class, everyone stopped paying attention to the teacher...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...In years past, conservative school board candidates had "only tangentially" taken on the district's diversity policy (37). Suburban mayors joined parents in the push to reduce the number of annual...