The Shenandoah Valley
...turns out, was most pronounced where economic development forces were the strongest. Railroads, industrial enterprises, cash crop agriculture, businesses and institutions fed and were fed by slavery. Just as significant...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...a pervasive melancholia symptomatic of modernity. Woody Guthrie's politically charged music forms the basis of chapter three, "A Rambling Funny Streak." For Comentale, Guthrie's "cheap, derelict song represents not just...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Radar Station, The English Beat's I Just Can't Stop It, and Stevie Wonder's Hotter Than July, and albums by more underground acts like the Talking Heads' Remain in Light, Elvis...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...economic opportunities in this persistently poor and distressed region. To understand what the poor are up against in Appalachia, you must understand mountaintop removal (MTR), the latest and most extreme...
The Place of Appalachia
...of mountaintop removal in Boone County, West Virginia, 2009. From NASA Earth Observatory. The struggle over MTR is intensely emotional not only because the stakes are so high but also...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...by W.L. Shepard. Originally published in Harper's Weekly (January 1, 1881) XXV., No. 1253, 5. Image produced by ProQuest LLC as part of ProQuest® HarpWeek Archive. www.proquest.com. Image published with...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...a hand in the production of lifestyle. Such was the story in urban and suburban enclaves across Atlanta's vast landscape at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Economic, social, and...
The Carolina Piedmont
...undertook the dirtiest, dustiest, hottest, and heaviest tasks in the tobacco factories of the Reynolds of Winston-Salem and of the Dukes of Durham. All but a handful of African Americans...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...he often "observed the evils of marijuana," and one of his first actions was to introduce statewide anti-marijuana legislation.33For Oser's quotes see "Red Sticks—Against Marijuana," Times-Picayune (New Orleans), May 14,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...began to link together the struggle against racism and against national oppression and against colonial oppression and the struggle against the exploitation of workers. And if you are from the...