Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
Editors
...Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy, which was long-listed for the National Book Award and a finalist for the PEN/Galbraith Award in non-fiction. Prof. Anderson’s research centers upon public policy, how racial inequality and racism...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...mill girls.8Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Letters on the Epistle of Paul to Philemon: Or, the Connection of Apostolical Christianity with Slavery. Charleston, South Carolina: B. Jenkins, 1845; Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, A Voice...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...and livelihood and reparations from the corporations that used and abused them for so long. Maybe that can be the basis for a positive political identity.1For an argument in favor...
Religion and the US South
...Anglican ministers had respected social and political authority and allied themselves with the gentry, and upper-class southerners would long admire the Anglican embrace of social class differences, along with paternalistic...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...high number but nothing like comparative statistics in the central or southern parts of the state.59For a good understanding of these numbers, see Megginson, African American Life, 8. Consider how...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...issue, movements to protect the living environment have existed for a long time in different forms. As André Gorz noted in Ecologica: "The ecological movement was born long before the...
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,...