Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...(42, 47). As the numbers and voices of newer residents surpassed those of long-time residents, the diversity policy long understood as "fair and beneficial to children of all backgrounds" became...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...whole city to the nation and the world" (222). The book is divided into three parts: "Origins," "Fame and Infamy," and "Bourbon Street as a Social Artifact." "Origins" reprises Campanella's...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...technology to create partnered, collaborative classrooms, which would enable students to share their ideas, work, and experiences cross-regionally and interculturally. Cross-field collaboration is especially needed in a globalized world, as...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...earlier historical timeline (back to 1700), and the perspective of world systems theory. "On the eve of the Civil War," she concluded, "Appalachians were much more likely than other Americans...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
...Phillips' use of autobiography and family history, investigation of the natural world, and the legacy of white supremacy in Forsyth County. Part 2: Phillips discusses “Brass Knuckles,” ambivalences of place...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
Bangladesh. Map by Mysid. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license: CC BY-SA 4.0. As the world moves into its fourth year since the advent of COVID-19, the pandemic remains...
Remnants of Flannery
...deeply religious worldview. Whittled down to a two-word sound bite appropriate to the age of Twitter, O'Connor's work might be described as peacock grotesque or grotesque peacockian, if one has...