I-26, Corridor of Change
...home, Walnut, North Carolina. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Like all newcomers, I was often greeted by, "You ain't from around here?" And, people were right to ask, to question...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...in New Orleans. It was my first trip into the city after Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and I had been touring a friend around landscapes and cityscapes that I...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...number of African Americans migrating to the South exceeded the number of those leaving the region. Especially for returning and primary migrants frustrated by the declining economic opportunities available in...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...rural and metropolitan residents.2See Ronald D. Eller, Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008), 232–233. In the Appalachian coalfields, the last decades of the twentieth century...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...way, and though he uses non-"ideal" sources such as "surveys, social networks, pornographic searches, and dating sites" to compile "evidence" on the "number of gay men" in this country, Stephens-Davidowitz...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...various states of collapse around the vicinity of the house: a stable, the Hill house, the water tower, the milking shed, and the big barn. All of these elements figured...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...by friends and colleagues around the country as they read the list of far-right legislation that has been coming out of Raleigh over the last six months. Is it as...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...taking a serious look, and the city chickens movement is gaining ground around the South. In 2008, Gulfport, Florida's city council passed new regulations that allow residents to keep chickens,...