Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...them, the residents. This landscape will provide the ecological base for hunting and gathering, cattle grazing, timber harvesting, vegetable gardening, and farming. The ecological base will be owned as a...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
Review: Something magical is on display in a tiny gallery at the University of Virginia Art Museum, a small selection of photographs that play off each other like the ingredients...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...to Gap Creek, The Road From Gap Creek, was published in 2013. A new novel, North Star, is forthcoming in 2015. In addition he is the author of three nonfiction...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...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 Anthropologist 73, no. 2...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...local whites flew thickly. In a 1914 letter to The St. Augustine Record, J. Gardner writes, I have seen the legend of the old slave market. I want to state...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Two years into her sentence, Gault petitioned for clemency on the grounds of her transformed character. A victim of her environment, particularly the bad influence of an older man, Gault...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...In the case of the “revival spiritual songs” that began to appear in great numbers in 1840s tunebooks, including The Sacred Harp, Steel speculates that some may have had their...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...GA Editions, 2002), 83–92. How, as a black British artist, does one go about such a project that also demands staging and the full incorporation of music and voice? It is likely that...