Writing Appalachia
...media. These forces have virtually obliterated traditional agrarian Appalachia, although an interest in local foods in the region, part and parcel of a larger local foods movement in the United...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...the necessity to move to renewable energy, the path to follow is far from agreed upon. Even among progressive parties no consensus exists about the strategy to follow.2For a thoughtful...
Bodies and Souls
...rural clinics affected everyday lives. Top, a patient has her blood pressure taken at the clinic in Jonestown, Bodies and Souls, 2005. Bottom, Sister Manette with a patient, Bodies and Souls,...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...video, Gainey’s gardens become fields of memory. He participates in seed saving movements that value heirloom plants, both botanically and culturally. He sees plants as part of larger historical narratives,...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...power among the political parties.11Rucho v. Common Cause. 139 S. Ct. 2484 (2019). An essential part of winning a Section 2 lawsuit against a reapportionment plan requires proving that most...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...COVID-19 Pandemic," Georgetown University Beeckcenter, October 4, 2022, https://beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/four-key-takeaways-from-mutual-aid-organizing-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/. Georgia has similar organizations. Community Movement Builders developed stabilization programs that include rent/mortgage payments as well as groceries in their efforts...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...years of the organization can be found either at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change or as part of the Morehouse King Collection at the Robert...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Book Library. Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 The film Anne Braden: Southern Patriot shows how Anne Braden found her voice as a southern white...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...whites used to maintain power. Hudson's decision to juxtapose this image with a pastoral photograph of two white men standing in a field of oats on the opposite page suggests...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...as symbiotic southern genres, even if only contrapuntally. The plantation romances were written partly as answers to Northern media’s images, yet it is also striking to note some thematic coding...