Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...here are at least twice that of the rest of the country. The people are mainly a rural, white population whose families have lived in Appalachia for generations, dating back...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...ask for the death penalty? Because they knew that no white jury would send the defendants to their deaths. They argued the case with the very opposite of indifference, with...
"Beer, Prayer and Nellydrama": (Im)Possibilities in Max Vernon's The View UpStairs
...Max Vernon's website: Lina Landstroem, "Queer History on Stage: A Review of The View UpStairs by Max Vernon," Public Seminar, March 1, 2017, https://publicseminar.org/2017/03/when-a-bar-was-your-home/; Zackary Stewart, "KPOP," TheaterMania, September 22,...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Television Network, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOCZOHQ7fCE. Top and bottom, Tour of the ruins of Ed Scott's catfish processing plant with Daniel Scott, Leflore County, Mississippi, 2013. Photographs by Julian Rankin. © Julian Rankin....
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...hundred acres of commercial development, six thousand single family residences, six thousand multi-family dwellings, park sites, church and school sites, a country club, swimming pool, tennis courts, an executive golf...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...in my dark, walking out into the street that changes nothing Midnight gets called on and talked to directly. September gets held at bay. That which you think of as...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...in the form of the nightclub experience as a central site for collective expression. While almost never expressed explicitly in crunk lyrics, the anger, rage, and violence expressed in the...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...Robert Darnton, "An Early Information Society: News and Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris," American Historical Review, Vol. 105 no 1, www.historycooperative.org/journals/ahr/105.1/ah000001.html. For an excellent overview of the approaches to print culture...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...labor and captivity. Another riverfront site was later accessed by congregants of local churches, arriving in white-robed processions to perform baptismal ceremonies. Princeville, from its infrastructure to its buildings and...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...and often implicated them as sites of illicit activity, including the smoking and selling of marijuana.69"Liquor and Mary Warner Seized," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), June 5, 1924, 26. In April 1924,...