A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...almost all-white, roared their approval of Trump's condemnation of undocumented immigrants—a sentiment many Alabamians apparently share. In the state's latest poll, Trump is leading all other candidates by almost 20...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...newly incorporated town of Oxford, Georgia, to radiate along broad geometrical avenues from the planned campus, itself organized around a stately oval drive. Devoted in large measure to preparing young...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...E. Staub, Voices of Persuasion: Politics of Representation in 1930s America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Michael Denning, The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (London and New...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...engines remind us that although the film's characters are battered by the forces of global warming and their carbon footprint is small, creating a carbon-free democracy is not their concern....
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...produced a tight coterie of local law enforcement, public health, and social welfare officials who carried their anti-marijuana campaign to the federal level. So much so that when Commissioner Anslinger...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...day laborers who were settling in suburban regions in large numbers in the 1990s. Several urban labor pools also remained in Atlanta's central business district where homeless shelters and "cat...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...historical mission through preservation of the cars. Nancy Marshall and John McWilliams, Award truck at Low Country Travelers car show, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, 2010. By-laws state that members must...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...Mine disaster. His images of laid-off and out-of-work miners suggest current tensions between miners and coal company management. Kanawha River Coal Load Out Facility. Montgomery, WV, 2005. Mining and the...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...region? How can policies be changed and incentives offered so that more land is available for housing and alternative economic development? What are the actual employment/income outcomes of regional economic...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...and to draw some parallels with 1980s black women artists is also to acknowledge–at best–indifference, alongside a lack of infrastructural support, issues of skills and knowledge gaps, and a commensurate...