Writing Appalachia
...industrialization, modern transportation, consumerism, migration, the centralization of American agricultural production in agribusiness enterprises outside the region, suburbanization, the global connections of the internet, and the multiple genres of electronic...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...ESA has covered bills for ten households in the past year, as well as covered a year of utilities for the BARRED Business house, which provides stable, community-owned housing for...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...love alone would not impress his new "mas'r," Jeffrey tried to appeal to his purchaser's business sense by "marketing" his own prospective bride, in a desperate hope that they might...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Barbara J. Fields, "Whiteness, Racism, and Identity," International Labor and Working-Class History 60 (Fall 2001): 48–56. perhaps because lynching "seemed to define in the starkest terms the virulence of white...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...has served as a marker of social status and as a means of racial segregation. On the one hand, church membership lends propriety and uprightness to the white middle class....
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...with slasher films or low-budget thrillers like Paranormal Activity, which are practically minting money at the box office. Instead, it combines gothic terror tropes with classic Hollywood narrative and aesthetic...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...of passing as a member of another race, class, or gender was anathema to the sort of "realistic" reportage that readers expected from the periodical press. Hardwig notes the irony...
Residues of Border Control
...the Durham Arts Council, 2000. The image is a page from an alphabet book produced in class. The maps are Polaroid images of a large map in the classroom where...
"Aint that Something?"
...Fiction Since 1878: "Appalachia in the national geographic imaginary . . . has largely remained an essentialist vision of the region—white, rural, poor or working-class mountain people with highly specific...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...esoteric that it no longer provides us the language we can use in our class rooms and home communities? My hope is that we can face these questions together. Panel...