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...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...will plow in this evening. And I see all my uncles in the shadows— Tommy, Norman, and the twins, Bobby and Billy, still young and slim. This for me is...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...space jumbled with coats and book bags, we would stand in front of her and open our mouths and recite. "I" was In the beginning, of course. And "L" was...
"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...
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...
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...
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...