Good-Bye to All That?
...posted on their websites and promoted through all forms of social media, including Facebook. They described the kinds of constructive measures that have worked across Transylvania County to develop environmentally...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...marriage illegal denied to mixed race children all claims to White property and, more significantly, to White identity. The codes that restricted property ownership and the vagrancy laws that permitted...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...used during the era of enslavement remain unmemorialized, carrying no sign or evidence that these places were as significant to the geography of enslavement as European ports such as Lisbon,...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...nine young men should not be forgotten. Moreover, as many expressed, remembering Scottsboro could promote racial healing today, still a pressing need. The commemorative events centered on the Scottsboro Boys...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...Times-Picayune (New Orleans), June 13, 1924, 4. On July 1, 1924, Governor Henry L. Fuqua signed the legislation into law. The measure allowed for limited sale of specific medically prescribed...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...job," Looking at Appalachia's use of multiple, competing frames undermines any attempt to portray a region in its entirety, or to pin this floating signifier within a fixed, defined border....
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...as "an archive that [she] can hold." Significance of the Occasion: A Letter and Comments from Charles Henry Rowell, Editor of Callaloo Dear Colleagues and Friends, Welcome to the 2014...
"Aint that Something?"
Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...nothing to promote political and economic change. In July 2010 Menendez took the Senate floor to oppose an easing of travel restrictions, remarking that more opportunities for US citizens to...
Palomares Bajo
...with its particular framings and emphases, I view a region offering new resonances to age-old adages. Accidents do happen. (A crooked crosswalk caution sign, its own guard rails bent and...