"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...been damaged by environmental disaster, falling crop prices, worsening poverty and disease, New Deal agricultural policies, and the mechanization of cotton production. Now landowners had decided to hire day laborers...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...day," Ward remembered, "he'd sit behind me in class. Every day he call me nigger. Every day, every day." She was recalling the student who dedicated himself to taunting her—quietly...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...what to do.34Weathers, Shitkickers, 44. This shared emotional response builds upon the story's central engagement with the day-to-day struggles of gay men and women and disenchantment that the story increasingly...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...John Gaventa (left), Helen Lewis (middle), and Richard Greatrex (right), 2014. Video stills by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. In 2012, Tom Hansell (assistant professor of Appalachian Studies...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...Weekly 25, no. 1275 (June 4, 1881). Decoration Day, later known as Memorial Day, originated in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War as an annual observance in which each...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...Ozarks. The store is the modern-day equivalent of the old-timey gristmill, a place of congregation for anyone with a minute to spare. I began the Arkansas component of a long-term...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...MARBL.) At the end of Raymond's life, he and Benny had acrimonious phone conversations and exchanged angry letters. The letters referenced the phone conversations and expanded on them. By 1990,...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...this degree of isolation or loneliness before, things that many queer people have been and continue to be all too familiar with, unfortunately so, day to day as many of...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...region in southern literature—with the following introduction: I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description; and perhaps...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...Atlanta Mayor Sam Massell famously described some four decades ago has largely come apart at the seams. Today, Clayton has a two-thirds black majority, Gwinnett is majority-minority, and even Cobb,...