Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...the African-Atlantic—the geographical, cultural, and symbolic space linked by the dispersion of African-descended peoples across the Atlantic.2Although a number of studies reference African antecedents in their analysis of African American...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...and exhausted from the suffering and hardship in their homeland, my father’s family decided that they needed to flee to the United States. At their first getaway attempt, my grandfather...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...numbers, vetting projects, and trading horses in an effort that to longtime observers must have seemed a fool's errand. Competition, not collaboration, had long characterized metropolitan relationships and it wasn't...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...conceived of the two as separate geographical and metaphorical entities. The values and ways of life of each stood in contrast to one another, with the country particularly representing a...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...significant barrier to health and human services in the Midlands.18United Way of the Midlands, Facing Facts: United Way of the Midlands Update for 2004: A Study of Issues That Shape...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
Genres of Southern Literature
...called into being the first, and in many ways most distinctively southern genres. Slavery and the racial divisions it enforced by law and custom resulted in a multitude of literary...
The Carolina Piedmont
...of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway offered a direct route from New York to New Orleans and further shifted the region's orientation away from the Carolina coast. Cotton agriculture,...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...way we inhabit places, an intellectual project that would, years later, change the way I looked at my hometown of Spartanburg, and possibly even change the way it looked at...
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
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...