An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...Jefferson and Eliza Borders Black. Following early schooling in "old field schools," H. R. Black attended a military academy in nearby Kings Mountain. After a six-month stint as a schoolteacher,...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...Winding mountain roads and insular hamlets have meant long bus rides for school children and extended trips for basic services such as food and health care. Twenty-five percent of Madison...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...of Scott-Heron's youth. Cover of Gil Scott-Heron's album Pieces of a Man, 1971. Drawing attention to Scott-Heron's engagement with the South does not deny the importance of Harlem and Lincoln...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...many black high schools were closed or were converted to elementary schools or junior highs. In 1970, for example, black students who attended W. E. B. DuBois High School were...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...through which the state exerted itself. Agrarian studies scholar James C. Scott, in The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2009), analyzes the political...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...with developing a course called "Rivers of Florida." For several semesters, I ventured with students in canoes and kayaks onto the state's many spectacular wild and scenic rivers—traveling hours for...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...scene of gift-giving? And why did it become a site of apparent racist attack? Equally puzzling is the identity of the child. The simple, crowned bluestone marker bears the following inscription:...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...for the more racially antagonistic "white." Such an assumption would not be wholly unjustified.9The conflation of "southern" and "white" to describe this music circulates widely among scholars and non-specialists, but...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Garden. The momentum continues: Atlanta now has its own "Chicken Whisperer" (Andy Schneider) with a radio show and web-based business for city flockkeepers. He also is keeper of a very...