The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/nclc.01060. As the western edge of European settlement, the mountainous backcountry of eighteenth-century Appalachia briefly represented a space of relative freedom from state...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...Part Two Johnson's approach to interviewing and transcribing, selecting and editing narratives for print publication, and recording stories of everyday sexual violence (14:49). Part Three What most surprised him in...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...thought, "We're going to be late for school." Only when my mother called home around 8:00 and told us we better walk that day did I understand that something had...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...yellow fever calls for its victims" in the Crescent City and that in the previous summer "one day after another, 100 [bodies] were lowered into the ground."31Ibid. He referenced the...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...it." It is June 23, 2016: just ten days after a gunman killed forty-nine people at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, Florida. You sit in the Kashi Atlanta Urban...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
..."quiet, slow-moving environmental crisis" (13) of Louisiana's wetlands loss. Theriot traces a history from the discovery of oil in the Chenier Plains in the 1920s and 1930s, to the heyday...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...The Big Ten's modern heyday in football was in the 1950s and 1960s. The conference's strength, particularly from the mid-1950s on, was due in large part to the fact that...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...a Human Rights Commission study found that approximately 70 percent of foreclosures in Austin occurred on the Eastside and recommended a ninety-day moratorium on new projects.71In 2000 approximately 15 percent...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...fifty years. The exodus continues today as black and white young people seek out places with better economic opportunities. “Outlands” suggests places that are not just rural but removed...