Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...gapped scales that gave the music a more primitive and haunting air. Though Jesse Aiken conceived of seven-shape notation in 1846, Ruebush-Kieffer songbooks like The Temple Star popularized the style...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...Hole she said, "Take the Old Road down into the gorge and cross to that overlook on Gauley that John used to like so much." Earl Dotter, Mountaintop removal mine...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
Readings Rodney Jones reads the poem "Failed Memory Exercise." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Homage To...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...gains power within his present space, shrewdly employing a tale to circumvent his white employer's buying a mule, and to set up a scam where he purchases a defective horse...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Indies "likely inspired Gabriel [Prosser] and his fellow insurrectionists to secure emancipation through violence" (29). Like Washington and Louverture, Gabriel, when he led a slave rebellion in Richmond in 1800,...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...The driveway is a rocky dirt road that winds up through a leafy tunnel. The two-story house, situated at the top of the hill, is simple white clapboard with columns...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...their way to Milledgeville frequently enough. But there were also a number of relatives, acquaintances, and professional associates who enjoyed the O'Connors' hospitality. She writes: "We had quite a gathering...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...information contact: Rep. Tyrone Brooks, President, Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials, 404-656-6372 or 404-372-1894, Cassandra Greene, Director 770-899-7424, or visit our Web site: www.ga-gabeo.org. Message to the killers: “You...
"Aint that Something?"
...Dawn, she looks back at the reader, redirecting the gaze. Just as coal mining has indelibly impacted the Appalachian landscape, it haunts the pages of Appalachian literature. In Trampoline, Dawn's...