Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...in the world, the people in Central Appalachia, including those near my home in the southern West Virginia coalfields, are among the poorest people in the United States. Poverty rates...
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...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...towns. Gentrification is occurring, but the area remains relatively cheap, isolated, hard to get to, and modest, especially outside the historic districts and areas close to campus. And somehow, within...
Our Backward Revolution
...number of lawsuits challenging these tax-exempt segregated schools, a policy eventually affirmed by the Supreme Court in Bob Jones v. United States (1983). Right-wing Republican activists like Paul Weyrich claimed...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016), chapter 5. On the United States and with a focus on legal consciousness as well, Dylan Penningroth, The Claims of Kinfolk: African...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...to the Bigham workshop. Woodmason's account incorporates details about the death that had circulated as gossip and settled into legend, but they are intermixed with mistaken information and with his...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...of environmental activists came from all over the United States—mostly the eastern United States—but there were kids from New England, from the South, and they were working with a local...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...black republic might hold for the nearly four million people held in chattel bondage in the United States. The contention that "the fear of a revolt—or revolution—being mounted by the...