Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...apparent in the 1958 FFF recording. By the time Harper recorded the Chesser Quartet, however, the creation of the National Wildlife Refuge had begun to displace Swamper families. Some traditions,...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...of the AIDS epidemic, Ruth Coker Burks cared for hundreds of people whose families had abandoned them. Courage, love, and the 30-year secret of one little graveyard in Hot Springs.”...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...the left. Coal is a filthy fuel, a major contributor to global warming, yet promises of "good paying green jobs" sound like pie in the sky to working class families...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...removal began, and overstates the number of Cherokees sent from Fort Hetzel, the number removed from Gilmer County, and the number sent to Indian Territory. Incomplete narratives neglected the involvement...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...his work expanded to the textile and fishing industries, Dotter maintained an emphasis on the multi-faceted, dangerous, and detrimental conditions facing rank-and-file workers and their families. In the photo essay...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...Bailey K. Ashford immortalized his first hookworm patients in a photograph. The caption reads: "Photograph of a number of natives of Puerto Rico, showing pernicious anemia due to Ankylostoma duodenale."...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...occupation with foraging, farming, gardening, and hunting. Old Stock Ozark families invariably refuse to sell their garden surplus, preferring to give it away to family and neighbors. General Characteristics These...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...or women from non-middle-class backgrounds. However, as Faderman notes with regard to young lesbians of this period who had been born into poor or working-class families, "the democratization of higher...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Delery-Edwards describes the Lounge as a cultural space that sought to insulate patrons from homophobic violence, what Vernon would imagine in a musical number, "The World Outside These Walls."11Max Vernon,...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...Bare the Painful Economics of Flood Protection," The Lens, September 2, 2012, http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2012/09/hurricane_isaac_lays_bare_the.html. This time, New Orleans has escaped relatively unscathed, and the calls people place to their families and...