The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...friends that lived down at the end of the street. I first got the word from him that they were moving. I knew that Jeff, the dad, had been out...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...Wilson Harris), law and literature (Colin Dayan), ethnographic history (Richard Price), object relation theory and new materialism, and ecocriticism. Her rich archive is composed of published literary texts, manuscripts, non-written...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...conventions mixed with popular memory, amateur and "professional" history, the study of folklore, and decades of activism by southern "heritage" societies. We know that this thing called the South—a new...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...to Virgil. What makes each new iteration of this tradition relevant and vibrant, as exemplified by the photographs in this exhibit, is the ability of artists to fuse new styles,...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...
The Place of Appalachia
...Appalachian Case (Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978); Dwight B. Billings, "Introduction: Writing Appalachia: Old Ways, New Ways, and WVU Ways," in Culture, Class and Politics in Modern Appalachia: Essays...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...a work that traces historical connections between New England Native intellectuals in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, arguing that we should understand their efforts in concert, not as isolated acts...
Writing Appalachia
...example, to examine the concept of the American frontier in the writings of New Yorker James Fenimore Cooper as well as in the southern account of Anne Newport Royall, or...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...a health risk." King's College London Podcast, June 11, 2020, https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/how-covid-19-has-exposed-racism-as-a-health-risk. Like many Black households in the US, my family had little reason to "trust the science," especially that produced...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...that will add new tensions and pose even more communication problems, but it can also make the field more dynamic and relevant to the region. Lower Price Hill Mural, Cincinnati,...