Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...door at 355 Broadway. The new facility accommodated seven-hundred fifty to eight hundred patrons and quickly became the hub of African American entertainment in Macon. As the premiere African American...
Writing Appalachia
...seek is scattered to the four quarters of the internet.1Websites for locating Appalachian writing include Documenting the American South (docsouth.unc.edu) and Making of America (quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/). Additionally, many specialized anthologies of...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
Review Water Graves investigates how contemporary writers and artists of the greater Caribbean (such as Jason deCaires Taylor) reinvest sites of racialized violence and environmental degradation—as so many manifestations of...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...public intellectuals gather to provide the Appalachian movement with access to information and ideas, to get the facts right about the region and its people, and to maintain spaces for...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. Unlike Americans in the US, Brazilians have benefitted from robust public health programs and a strong vaccine infrastructure since the 1970s....
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...long inaccessibility of SCLC's records from this period has now ended, and, after three years of processing made possible by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources,...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. Hill's poems have appeared in Callaloo, Ploughshares, Pleiades, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, The Oxford American, Tin House, and other literary journals, and in...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...for an international organization representing indigenous peoples. She studied at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and at Vermont College, where she completed an MFA in creative...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...had for whites."12Jennifer Hochschild, Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1995), 44. Since the sixties, as Thomas...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...North Carolina," was one of the earliest studies of regional variations in American quiltmaking traditions. Between 1983 and 1985, Horton worked with the McKissick Museum at the University of South...