Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...Relevant, Still Divisive," Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, April 8, 2011, http://www.people-press.org/2011/04/08/civil-war-at-150-still-relevant-still-divisive/. But Chief Justice Roberts's question is as immaterial as it is politically charged. At...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...how much the building cost. She calculated this number by remembering how when she would lean on the walls as a student at NOCCA, teachers told her, "Don't lean on...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...and keyboardist Ian Stewart, the original "sixth" Rolling Stone, in 1982 Leavell was invited to assume a significant keyboardist/vocalist role for the Stones. "Chuck is our direct link to Stu,"...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...Steubenville as both an impoverished town in the Rust Belt of Ohio and as an industrial Appalachian city, tacitly connecting the crime to longstanding regional stereotypes. The case has garnered...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...and keep their gains.5On corporate subsidies, Niraj Chokshi, "The United States of Subsidies," Washington Post, March 18, 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/17/the-united-states-of-subsidies-the-biggest-corporate-winners-in-each-state/?utm_term=.314361798972. Top, View of Arthurdale project, Reedsville, West Virginia, 1935. Photograph by...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...to our closest Caribbean neighbor. The United States is willing to cultivate relationships with countries with human rights conditions that the State Department deems similarly flawed to Cuba's in the...
Piedmont Blues
...longest-lasting double act in blues history. McTell, Blind Willie McTell (1901-1959) grew up in Statesboro, Georgia, and made his living as a popular street musician. Playing a twelve-string guitar ,...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...1861–1864 when, as Smith puts it: "The nation that had prided itself on its civilized control of the senses lost that control" (6). Smith's book is structured around five events,...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the states of Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina regarded their far-flung kin as either outsiders or as rivals who had abandoned them in their fight against the federal and state...