Sonic Zora in Florida
...of" such spells, it is "as if [she] had just been born again," Hurston nonetheless was plagued at times with questions about how best to make sense of her inner...
Mississippi as Metaphor: State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: The limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: The idea of Mississippi as America writ large: did the “Mississippi...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...usually water-powered, contemporary ones typically run on fossil fuels or electricity. The general disappearance of gristmills throughout the United States contributes to the decline in heirloom corn varieties because without a local...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...United States (13–14). Plate 3, 1834. Colored illustration by T. A. Conrad. Originally published in T. A. Conrad's New Fresh Water Shells of the United States (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Judah Dobson,...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...by that upheaval and diversity. What is "southern studies" today, well into the twenty-first century, in the age of the global-superpower United States? Whatever it is, we think it is...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...acquiescence—the hierarchy of the United Mine Workers, the coal operators' association, county political machines, and the Social Security Administration.1The language of "miners' wives and widows" implies that all miners are...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...affluent, white, urban easterners. As the opening sentence of Upon Provincialism notes, "Local-color writing concerning the southern United States from 1870 until 1900 reveals as much about national readers and...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...interests of business and political elites. Fair Development Campaign protest of Harbor Point development, Baltimore, Maryland, July 17, 2013. Photograph by Flickr user United Workers (CC BY 2.0). While reasonably...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...in Wake County developed as the public's trust in governmental and political institutions across the United States was declining markedly" (80). A significant portion of what appeared to be the...