"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...History of an American Icon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004). Misrepresentations of Ozarkers emerge through a lack of cultural relativism and an inability or unwillingness to comprehend traditional Ozark...
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
...coming out of the 1960s New Left and student movements such as Bob Hall, a thirty-two-year-old Florida native and one of the founders of ISS, and Bill Finger, a thirty-year-old...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...or his relationship to his home community on our account, and to do so would be misleading and wrong." Cohen's reflections on Halcomb's folk festival performances seem at once respectful...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...policies can assure an equal opportunity to learn for the growing numbers of our poorest children. Education can be one of the nation's most efficient and effective long-term investments to...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...closet case, down low, top, bottom, vers, masc, macho, fem, maricón, queen—in order to survive. One could not simply be "out"; one had to negotiate how one was out. Moonlight...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...over the century: one concerned the town's battle to clean up PCBs among other chemical pollutants, and the other concerned the fate of chemical weapons stockpiled in Anniston during the...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...in the lyrics and titles of songs such as NWA's "Straight Outta Compton" or 2 Live Crew's "Miami" offers one way of figuring place. On the more abstract level of...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...by 13,717 raising the Latino proportion to 10%, and the number of other non-white students rose by 4.6 percent consisting of 9% of total enrollments.8Other non-Whites include students identified as...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...to federal court orders to desegregate local public schools. With little or no attempt to hide their intent to evade Brown, seven southern legislatures enacted voucher programs providing families with...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...organized into three sections corresponding to the titular eras of Native history. In the first, Beck considers chiefdoms from 1400 to 1650, demonstrating the centrality of maize surplus to the...