The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...exclusively on class relations; in the context of coal camps, this includes analyzing the contradictory role of the household garden as a means to lower the cost of miners' and...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...all illegal immigrants, and 63 percent of working-class white southerners believe that immigration is changing society for the worse. Ten of the eleven states of the Old Confederacy joined sixteen other...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
Essay Another Mother's Day has come and gone and still no officially supported memorial honors the Freedom Riders at the site where civil rights workers braved the vicious firebombing of...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...it’s also true that a significant part of my work and practice actually comes from how I grew up in my very conservative, “southern,” working-class household in Fort Myers, a...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...they didn’t get paid very much.” The SOB Band demonstrates the power, excitement, sexuality, and humor of classic Chicago blues. They were not just another act recycling familiar material to...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...it badly enough to put on quite a show" (Mitchell, 570). In the same way that drag queens perform a wide range of femininity across race, class, age, and culture,...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...dark as bright colors shatter around her like glass shards, and she remembers her sixth-grade science class, the gurgle of the aquarium at the back of the room that morning...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...US Green New Deal assert in A Planet to Win: A Left populism that mobilizes a genuinely multiracial working class is an essential step in the path to creating a...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...car show, but do not attend the monthly meetings. Club members must own American-made classic cars ranging in model year from 1900 to 1972. Restoration need not be completely authentic,...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...of her slip was showing when he recorded the moment: "I didn't want to be mistaken for a servant. Dressing well made me feel first class. I wanted to set...