"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...subsistence and architectural strategies of their Euro-American neighbors in the Southeast. The first Europeans in the Ozarks were French creoles, who almost exclusively exploited the mineral resources and fur-bearing animals. ...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...or fourth whitest state in the country.14According to the latest United States Census estimates, West Virginia is the fourth-whitest state in the Union. ANN: West Virginia is very white, but...
The Shenandoah Valley
...turns out, was most pronounced where economic development forces were the strongest. Railroads, industrial enterprises, cash crop agriculture, businesses and institutions fed and were fed by slavery. Just as significant...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...a pervasive melancholia symptomatic of modernity. Woody Guthrie's politically charged music forms the basis of chapter three, "A Rambling Funny Streak." For Comentale, Guthrie's "cheap, derelict song represents not just...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Radar Station, The English Beat's I Just Can't Stop It, and Stevie Wonder's Hotter Than July, and albums by more underground acts like the Talking Heads' Remain in Light, Elvis...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...economic opportunities in this persistently poor and distressed region. To understand what the poor are up against in Appalachia, you must understand mountaintop removal (MTR), the latest and most extreme...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...a hand in the production of lifestyle. Such was the story in urban and suburban enclaves across Atlanta's vast landscape at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Economic, social, and...
The Carolina Piedmont
...undertook the dirtiest, dustiest, hottest, and heaviest tasks in the tobacco factories of the Reynolds of Winston-Salem and of the Dukes of Durham. All but a handful of African Americans...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...he often "observed the evils of marijuana," and one of his first actions was to introduce statewide anti-marijuana legislation.33For Oser's quotes see "Red Sticks—Against Marijuana," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), May 14,...
Mississippi Delta
Essay Mississippi Delta region. Map by Stacey Martin, 2006. Sociologist Rupert Vance wrote in the 1930s of the "cotton obsessed, Negro obsessed" Mississippi Delta as "the deepest South." A half...