Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
..."birth," her family and childhood, Allegheny and Oakland, and that there is (to her mind) something significantly "American" about this simultaneous confirmation/reinvention/departure? Stein goes on to argue at the beginning...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...married Nancy Miller and they moved to Spartanburg District where Silas was a machinist and millwright. He set up a flour mill, sawmill, and a wool-carding mill in the North...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Soto and Vitachuco, 1898. Image by George Gibbs. Originally published in Grace King's De Soto and his Men in the Land of Florida (The Macmilliam Company, 1898). Courtesy of the...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...and foraging, and the production and sale of illicit substances such as moonshine, marijuana and methamphetamines.39Rafferty, The Ozarks: Land and Life. Rural Ozarkers usually adhere to a “live and let...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...and others in the Kentucky mountains found offensive or exploitative, the New York art world to which Cohen belonged during the late 1950s and 1960s found beautiful and poetic. In...
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...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...of questions we ask, Calypso Magnolia's "crosscurrents" will help readers think beyond and across hyphenating waters. "So Many One Night Stands": Island People and Island Hopping In Calypso Magnolia's chapter...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...racial disparities. Segregation and poverty exacerbated industrial waste dumping in poor and minority neighborhoods, and in turn, the resulting pollution reinforced and worsened segregation and poverty. As Spears writes, "Segregation...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...the busiest national airport) also drive economic growth.3A. Hansen, "Black and White and the Other: International Immigration and Change in Metropolitan Atlanta" inBeyond the Gateway: Immigrants in a Changing America,...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...against "clumsy" and reductive concepts of social and cultural change and instead uses structure to link fifteenth and eighteenth century Native political economies (10). Although these structures were fundamentally altered,...