No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...very divisions, he doesn't make clear. Nor does Mellard carefully examine class and regional differences that place the white-middle class hippie against the white working-class redneck. The song that best...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...do not apply to these minorities alone, although it will be clear, too, that prejudice and its costs affect different populations, and differently disenfranchised and marginalized groups, in many distinct...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
Review In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, clubs in Houston, Dallas, and many other centers of New Orleanian displacement hosted "New Orleans" nights, featuring rap music from the Crescent City....
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...equal power in Heilbut's discussion of homosexuality and hypocrisy in black gospel culture. There is a critically important distinction between the outsider identity of the conservative evangelical and the gay...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...Video still from Susan Levitas, The Music District, 1996. When the tide started to turn after the millennium, the city faced a new problem—gentrification and the dissolution of a concentrated...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...no accidental Edens. They display the results of generations of sacrifice and invention, of work with machete and plow. Idyllic portrayals of the natural beauty of Cuba often ignore people...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...and much of this is attributed to the city's history of racial residential patterns. As it did decades ago, race more than class still determines where African Americans live in...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...decorated it with flowers and art. Guests admired both the "east wing" (my side) and the "west wing" (the neighbors') of the coop. Everyone feasted on a potluck dinner, including...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...justice system and prison are frequently sensationalized when they are represented in popular culture and public discourse. The post-prison re-entry process is seldom part of anyone's depiction or discussion. Shannon...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...slurry impoundment, Raleigh County, West Virginia, 2008. As MTR is currently practiced, three distinct stages of power relations can be discerned among communities affected by MTR. Stage One is the...