The Place of Appalachia
Essay How might spatial theory help us understand the political significance and potential of the diverse, place-based struggles documented in Transforming Places? First, place matters in the pursuit of social...
Birdhouses
Introduction When we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world. —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space1Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (New York:...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...she has published two pieces, Elegy for the Native Guards and Theories of Time and Space. About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...homes where Mother's Day dinners cooled while the locals watched the smoke agitate the north Alabama sky, and Janey Miller, the twelve year old with a well bucket and a...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...Arkansas, and Branson, Missouri. Ninety-six percent white, the county is demographically similar to northern Arkansas and southern Missouri counties, home to a declining population predominantly employed in farming. Searcy's population...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...his teens, he served as a combat medic in the South Pacific. After the war he married Brenda Fisher, whom he had met at college. They moved to North Carolina,...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
...cubana Leyma López, la directora: la desilusión incesante de la juventud y la monotonía de la existencia circular resultaban cuestiones afines a un elenco multinacional. Cuando Ohio Northern University produjo...