Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...and verbal skill feature prominently in the evening's tenor, and one woman will later compete in the late-night freestyle session after the formal close of the show. To date, researchers...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...the Age of Emancipation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014). In areas with large free populations of color, individuals who were lateral to the enslave—enslaved relationship—the mothers, fathers, siblings, lovers,...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...Making of Americans in earnest in 1906 to her late-life reflections on war, G.I.s, and the atom bomb. Before the publication of The Autobiography in 1934 propelled her into celebrity...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...counties combined (250,885). The numbers of African American residents in "diversifying" Fayette, northern Fulton, and Gwinnett counties each approximately doubled over the course of the decade; the numbers in Henry...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...Georgia, March 2d and 3d, 1859," The New-York Tribune, March 9, 1859, 8. Fitzhugh Brundage has noted that the contemporary term used to describe how people remember and articulate their history...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...they were "not such picturesque35"Picturesque" appears frequently in late-nineteenth century writing describing opossum hunting throughout the southern states. The term was rooted in eighteenth-century British landscape design, but travel writers,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
But now, rather late in this talk, as I speak about workers, about working people, I realize that perhaps some of you here (perhaps most of you!) don't identify as...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...who, like the Mims, were directly affected by the town's chemical dramas, serves as a powerful "argument for reforming how we manufacture, use, and regulate toxic chemicals in the United...