How I Shed My Skin
...the conflicts between insensitive white teacher-administrators and their black charges are managed, although not resolved. In How I Shed My Skin's conclusion, Grimsley is one of only two white graduates...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...as Ulises himself in Eggs or Carlos Celdrán in Ten Million. Both were very young in 1980 but have managed to print their texts, full of autobiographical nuances, and this...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...past. Rather, it attests to the enduring realities of labor exploitation that the black lung movement episodically managed to contest. For its constituents, the movement achieved a unique and unprecedented...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...Press,1998); Rebecca Pelan, "Practising Disobedience: Feminist Politics in the Academy," Hecate 38 no. 1/2 (2012): 210–222, 234; Gary Rhoades and Sheila Slaughter "Academic Capitalism, Managed Professionals, and Supply-Side Higher Education," Social...
Writing Appalachia
...permissions, the bane of the anthologist, vexed us as well. We had to make some hard choices when permissions trails went cold or when manageable deals could not be struck...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
...history. Kennedy is the lead investigator of the New Orleans Mortality Project, and from 2012 to 2015 he served as the project manager for the imagineRio project at Rice University....
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
Preface On a muggy Sunday afternoon in June of 1959, John Cohen wandered the winding mountain roads of eastern Kentucky searching for old-time musicians. Neon, Bulan, Vicco, Viper, Daisy, Defiance...