Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...in 1980 still resonates. "At its worst . . . regional identification is an isolationist impulse." He deconstructs an essentialist mountain identity. And yet, "The political value of regional identity...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Eastside, takes its place in the background. While the mural is emblematic of a proud African American history in central East Austin, it also evokes a present in which African...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...susceptible to DDT-induced illness. From existing letters, it's unclear if this is how they felt from the start, or whether they developed this idea in response to official dismissals of...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...inducted into the US Army and served overseas in World War I until mid-1919.11Army separation application #272507 (22 November 1919), Arthur Middleton. In the 1920 census he is living apart...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...informed Miami Bass lyrics and imagery with regard to women. The world of adult entertainment in the city and the emergent rap scene were highly intertwined, as shown in the...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...applications,” press of Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, July 6, 2023, https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/2023-07-06/iowas-students-first-education-savings-account-program-generates-more; Robin Opsahl, “More than 29,000 apply for Iowa private-school funds in first year,” Iowa Capital Dispatch, July 6, 2023,...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...with a glazed surface. The particular fabric in this quilt has been identified as typical of the chintzes produced in England in the 1840s, which "show an impressionistic shading of...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...the mills—and the union—survived the 1980s. WestPoint Pepperell, Inc. bought J. P. Stevens in a leveraged buyout in 1988 and broke the corporation into three separate businesses. The mills in...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...as an English instructor on one-year contracts and living in a small, one-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Spartanburg. I still imagined I'd soon live elsewhere when I got the...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...con-suetudinario y memoria: práctica jurídica y costumbre en Castilla y León (siglos XI–XIV) (Madrid: Universidad Carlos III, 2012); Yanna Yannakakis, The Art of Being In-Between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity and...