The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...a Forgotten Rebellion and its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans into Americans (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003), 27-37. For Johnson the railroad penetrated the isolated region along the Texas-Mexico border...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...New Orleans, LA, November 20–24, 2002); Leon Fink, The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003); Jamie Winders,...
Religion and the US South
...of new Presbyterian and Baptist congregations, as well as a new presence of Quakers, Lutherans, German Reformed Methodists, and pietistic Protestant sects. All of these new religious influences appealed to...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...new forms. We wanted to advance scholarship that used digital media as essential components. We also wanted to differentiate the purpose of this new publication from "Southern Studies" in general,...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...now more closely associated with Miami than New Orleans, entertains a new generation. New Orleans bounce twerking became a mainstream topic in 2013 via Miley Cyrus's controversial career reinvention.2Nico Lang,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...this time frame), "grew up in a reality perplexingly divided by the intermingling of an emerging mass society and a decaying industrial culture." New technologies, new familial structures, new networks...
Sunset Colonies: Photographs by Diego Alejandro Waisman
...Diego Alejandro Waisman. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2024.) Reprinted with permission of University Press of Florida. In another, the new building remains to the far right edge, rising up...
The Nature of Rights
...glacial moulins or crevasses, and the “starless” or subterranean rivers along the Italy-Slovenia border.[1] The new book evokes similar wonder for the natural world, while even more pointedly identifying the...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...newspaper clipping, ca. 1947. Scan by Flickr user Ted Kerwin. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. In the mid-1940s, Dottie Colson and her blacksmith husband Henry, along with daughters Hazel...
Genres of Southern Literature
...for southern literature. This tradition is not without irony, given the other directive that has long governed southern literary study: the emphasis on promoting "internal" or a-historical, non-contingent readings of...