No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...the West Columbia Wal-Mart are Russian immigrants. . . . They do all the cleaning and the maintenance. They come in in crews. So there's a strong Russian population in...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...whereas coal contributes to climate change and the disruption of human societies all over the world; whereas a rural policy should incorporate ecological principles with food production on a small...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...One Human Family sign, Key West, Florida, December 18, 2012. Photograph courtesy of Flickr users Ed and Eddie. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. One Human Family mosaic, Key West,...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...and temperament, Jonathan Daniels had no patience for southerners who resented Roosevelt's "No. 1 economic problem" designation. As he wrote to Lowell Mellett, Executive Director of the National Emergency Council...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...interest of exchanging ideas and advancing trade.4Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, "2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices," US Department of State, accessed December 16, 2011, http://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/index.htm. Rather...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...For instance, the great risks taken by workers while crossing the border are covered very briefly and illustrated with an image of a family running. In this essay we are...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...leftover tracts of land. No less engrossing is their history. According to Lake Douglas, author of Public Spaces, Private Gardens: A History of Designed Landscapes in New Orleans, and a...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...white, rustic life and experience has "tended to preserve it."38Pamela Fox, Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009), 7. For more...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...have had an especially cramped colored waiting room for that reason. But southern railroads designed with segregation in mind were often equally problematic. Completed in 1906, Atlanta's massive Terminal Station...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Rabinovitz describes the early twentieth-century amusement park as "an Erector-set world of mechanical thrill rides, shows of human and animal oddities, saloons and swimming pools, beer gardens and ballrooms, restaurants...