The Place of Appalachia
...maintain family and community ties. County Economic Status in Appalachia, Fiscal Year 2013, Appalachian Regional Commission. Population Change in Appalachia, 2000–2010, Appalachian Regional Commission. Unemployment Rates in Appalachia, 2010 (County...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Kindaisen to Tairyoku, Jinko, 188. He warned that the birth rate of Japanese women in Korea was “far below” that of local women and reiterated the common eugenic argument that...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...in P. T. Barnum's American Museum—suggests that Mammoth Cave fed the era's appetite for properly staged productions. It is theatricality that mars Ralph Waldo Emerson's experience underground. His essay, "Illusions,"...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
.... . that's a really good question. I think what had an impact was less the actual teaching of English than being in cultures that weren't American and weren't Appalachian....
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...them that did many things. But from discussions with scholars about what would be useful to them, one point kept emerging. While the basic assumption of the projects was that...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...1960 and 1980, archival evidence shows that cruising narratives played a powerful role in that identification. At the same time, these narratives also show that queer territorialization in Houston was...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...that attempted to return freed slaves to a de facto bondage. Beginning in Mississippi in 1865, these so-called "Black Codes" appeared to grant Black people certain legal rights for the...
"Aint that Something?"
...beliefs that Appalachia is white and homogenous. These many diverse voices of Appalachia challenge the idea of a singular Appalachian experience or identity, and Robert Gipe's Trampoline now joins the...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...the white male opponents by suggesting that their shared traits, beliefs, and traditions accounted for a common bravery in battle and a sense of common white Americanness that surged in...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...a Human Rights Commission study found that approximately 70 percent of foreclosures in Austin occurred on the Eastside and recommended a ninety-day moratorium on new projects.71In 2000 approximately 15 percent...