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...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...plantations were responding to abolitionist rhetoric with idealistic portrayals of the master class, embellished with usually silent slaves in the background. The slave narrative, conversely, is viewed as having its...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
Women's Space, Queer Space: Communes, Landykes, and Queer Contact Zones in the Lesbian Feminist South The middle-aged man sitting in the row in front of me shoved his wife's arm...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
Essay A just-released report from the Southern Education Foundation—"The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation"—finds that more than 5.7 million children lived in extreme...
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...
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...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...social upheaval with that Blind Lemon Jefferson blues classic. Hurston: This song I am going to sing is a lining rhythm, and I am going to call it "Mule on...
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...
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...