Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...By putting the South Carolina Lowcountry in dialogue with West-Central Africa and the Western hemispheric African Atlantic, Brown revives the iconic debate between anthropologist Melville Herskovits, who privileged African antecedents...
Religion and the US South
...habitation. As the South became a predominantly biracial society in the nineteenth century, the coming together of the religions of western Europe and western Africa provided the essential background for...
Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
...Ferdinand, Virginia, and William. Ann remains listed at 1732 L Street until 1886, when she resides there with her daughter Virginia Lucas. After that, Ann Tinney Lucas is not listed...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...concepts — pastoralism and the Middle West — which initially were similar in several respects, rapidly intertwined and soon became virtually synonymous," creating an image of the Midwest as a...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...original book seeks answers to that question. My own introduction to black lung began in the winter of 1971–1972, when I came to West Virginia to work for the Black...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...State Hospital, Petersburg, Virginia, 1915. Photographs by unknown creator. Originally published in the Forty-Fifth Annual Report of the Central State Hospital of Virginia (Petersburg) for the Fiscal Year Ending September...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...show up in southern West Virginia or eastern Kentucky and open factories and offices. I wrote the Commons Communities Act after months of thinking about how the people of the...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...mining town, Welch, West Virginia, 1938, loc.gov/pictures/item/2017799282. Bottom, Coal miners waiting along road for bus to take them home, Bluefield section of Welch, West Virginia, 1938, loc.gov/pictures/item/2017799287. Photographs by FSA photographer...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Landscape and Language among the Western Apache (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996). Yet it was not until 2008 that the city of Savannah and the Georgia Historical Society placed...