Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...and create ways to live in a particular place, a process that included imagination and adaptation as well as habitation. Paulett finds that the geography of place varied with those...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...region’s shift away from cash crop monoculture in the eighteenth century actually consisted of and what that change’s consequences were for slaves in New Orleans. He then chronicles the reemergence...
The Change
... and sharecroppers. Away, so that I could always hold this concise image of before that time and it floods my memory. Published in Off...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...persons with an annual income of $22,231 or less was eligible for free lunch; a student with an annual family income of $31,765 or less was eligible for reduced-price lunch....
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...success that the black freedom struggle enjoyed in the 1960s and that Mexican Americans coveted" (10). Nevertheless, blacks and Mexican Americans forged stronger alliances during this period—even if sustained solidarity...
Writing Appalachia
...of Appalachian literature that is comprehensive, reflects contemporary ideas about authorship and Appalachia, and brings readers well into the twenty-first century. That is what this book attempts to do. In...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...incapacitating depression that left her unable to "write, read, or do anything at all for a period." Having assured her "Boss" in that letter that when she does "come out...
Anniversary
...a rider on a bygone bus, taking the route for one's own, no matter what crowd, what confrontation. History, memory, we know the photographs so well we almost expect the...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...developments that led to federal marijuana legislation in 1937.4For prominent examples, see Howard Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (New York: Free Press, 1963); Alfred Ray Lindesmith, The...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Ozarks was so poor to begin with that they scarcely noticed. No, that's not right, because poverty’s so relative. A better way to put it is that folks in the...