I-26, Corridor of Change
...rural counties across the United States, Madison experienced rapid change. In the 1960s, a significant number of newcomers entered Madison County from outside the Southern Appalachian region. The earliest of...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...states as the US South: Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland. Today the South is the only section...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...Part Two Johnson's approach to interviewing and transcribing, selecting and editing narratives for print publication, and recording stories of everyday sexual violence (14:49). Part Three What most surprised him in...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...into a more appropriate and useful channel."2Simpson, "Note to the Public," v–vi. Despite his groundbreaking creativity, Simpson is little known today. Few scholars have written about his work, and he...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...Guards,” “Providence,” “Prodigal I,” and the documentary impulse Part 4: Trethewey discusses “Secular,” “Saturday Drive,” “Collection Day,” “Saturday Matinee,” and photographs as family artifacts Part 5: Trethewey discusses “Graveyard Blues,” “Myth,” “Incident,”...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
..."quiet, slow-moving environmental crisis" (13) of Louisiana's wetlands loss. Theriot traces a history from the discovery of oil in the Chenier Plains in the 1920s and 1930s, to the heyday...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...thought, "We're going to be late for school." Only when my mother called home around 8:00 and told us we better walk that day did I understand that something had...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...transformation, and both manifest the qualities of dedication and determination in moving toward that goal. Blair Mountain March and Rally, Day Six, Blair Mountain, West Virginia, June 11, 2011. Flickr...
Work
You wake up knowing you'll work. You don't worry that circumstances will hurt your chances to choose your labor. It seems your choice is made. Reams of fabric undergird your...