The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...miserable, impoverished throwback that impeded the self-evidently desirable processes of modernization, "Atlantic elites" gradually appropriated the means of subsistence of mountain farmers, then pronounced them miserable and poor. This critique...
Birth Right
Birth Right: Video and Essay Birth Right. A short video by Neeta Kirpalani and Emily Jackson, 2008. Midwifery is controversial in Alabama, both legislatively and in debates about women's health...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...'60s and early '70s in Alfred McCoy, The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade, Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Colombia (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003), 387–460....
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
Review Sarah Mayorga-Gallo's Behind the White Picket Fence explores how race, class, and ethnicity shape daily life and power sharing in "Creekridge Park," a pseudonymous multiethnic neighborhood located in Durham, North Carolina. In the early...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...attending, their presence straining the capacity of a local courtroom and a nearby church. Their shared mission in Scottsboro: a commitment to remembrance, a belief that the injustice done the...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...years, Holiday herself is on record as having occasionally claimed Baltimore as the city of her birth.) Meanwhile, other major figures, like Mamie Smith, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (just across...
New Digital Archive of Hiphop and Bounce Music in New Orleans
...and bounce in this collection, in a city where these musics are so often segregated as something different––considered unworthy of preservation or protection and support as cultural heritage––cannot be overstated....
The Cobb County Braves
On Monday, November 11, residents of the city of Atlanta were surprised to learn that their baseball team, the Atlanta Braves, will move to a new suburban stadium in 2017....
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...New Orleans musicians have drawn on their experiences of living in a flood plain Part 4: Spitzer explores the cultural importance of the city’s musical and building arts, featuring an interview...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...Baptists, Bill took a seat as a city commissioner, then took over the most influential gay newspaper in the South, The Barb. When his addictions and predilections were revealed, he...