Writing Appalachia
...with the remarkable number of fine authors whose works had appeared since the book's publication, made that collection feel incomplete. Aware of those gaps, Higgs and Manning, along with scholar...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
The Black Belt
...Institution's Festival of American Folklife and aficianados of modern art at New York City's Whitney Museum. To the Black Belt, in increasing numbers each year, visitors from throughout the world...
The Change
...cart trailers pulled behind the orange Allis-Chalmers tractor with huge, round fenders and only a screwdriver and salt in the tool box, picked by primers so hot we would race...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...the story "Mrs. Yardley’s Quilting," the gentlemanly narrator asks Sut to explain a "muddy job" he has been talking about. Sut says he has been "helping tu salt ole Missis...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...philosophy, and ecocriticism of the Americas. The book brims with theoretical and aesthetic insights on every page. It has the dense, compact, and rich qualities of basalt. Ariel's Ecology embraces...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Me Kansas City Looking for My Woman Mean Mistreater My Baby Going to Leave Record All Day Sail On, Little Girl V-8 Ford When I’m Sober, When I’m Drunk Blues...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...is originally from Panama City, Florida. In the play a group of gay characters ponder how "we need our community, we need our history. How else can we teach the...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
Review Tammy Ingram explores both more and less than the history of the Dixie Highway, built between 1915 and 1926 as a six-thousand-mile loop from Chicago and other Lake Michigan...