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...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...on the history of the Tremé see: Ned Sublette, The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2008); Michael Eugene Crutcher, Tremé:...
Remnants of Flannery
...and 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...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...as its whites-only counterpart. But its remote location and the poorly maintained roads leading there made it inaccessible. Charleston Negroes Seek Use of Lily-White Park. Published in the Memphis World,...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...theater world. Placing her dream on hold, Herndon threw herself into her work as head of the department of drama and elocution at Atlanta University. Unable to perform Shakespeare in...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Hutchison instead offers a number of "themes"—all significant and important—that emerge from Apples and Ashes, including the transnational nature of Confederate literature, the cosmopolitan aspirations of Confederate writers, and the...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...Literature 46.1 (March 1974): 56. Like the "stinger" of Christ lodged in Hazel Motes' mother's head, O'Connor demonstrates "that the violence of rejection in the modern world demands an equal violence...