"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...an immigrant to the region noted the seed varieties she transported from Germany to the Missouri Ozarks in cloth bags and paper seed packets: . . . three kinds 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
...to the public eye and into the public arena."23Spzak interview. This did not guarantee change. In a 1976 working paper, SEJ admitted that "the participants in the J. P. Stevens...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...to be part confidence man, part academic, part spy. . . . In the most self-critical light, collecting music from innocent informants is an exploitative act — taking from them...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...to justify the loving of this particular couple as valid? For whom are the filmmakers making Loving and why are they placing this story of the past in our present?...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...in Anniston since the 1930s, and growing up, Mims and her family—mother, father, and twelve siblings—lived right near the plant. Her parents farmed land near a drainage ditch that carried...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...particular place can only produce a limited number of marketable artists) and, to a lesser degree, speculative exploration (that going to obscure places might yield a novel interpretation of the...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...1994/95 and 2007/08. Racial isolation is calculated by the number of students in a particular racial group experiencing isolation in schools with more than 50% minority enrollments across school districts.9G....
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...PAC targets Texas GOP incumbents,” Open Secrets, Mar. 4, 2024, https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/03/school-choice-super-pac-targets-texas-gop-incumbents/; Katie Meyer, “Jeff Yass, the richest man in Pa., is single handedly keeping school choice PACs flush,” WHYY, May...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation is an ethnohistory of the eighteenth-century Pawnees, Otoes, and Kansas, focusing particularly on their strategies to protect...