The US South and the 2008 Election
...American politics wasn't that difficult. The key was to figure out who hates whom — "That is the secret." This formula, which reached its apotheosis in the Rovean politics of...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...and heard. When journalists asked William H. Jones, leader of the camp near Sikeston, what it was all about, he replied that after having been turned out of their homes...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...and other scholars have been so busy whittling away at that old standard story that today only a stump remains. Even the National History Standards, written and approved during a...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...he recalled. "I learned that on the front porch at night, when my grandmother and other people would talk about what the situations were and what needed to be done,...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...the poorest families in Bolivar. Pushing against the monocrop culture that had rendered many Black sharecroppers jobless, the NBCFC grew crops that would meet nutritional needs: protein-rich nuts, peas and...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...over the world diehard fans of Sheriff Andy and Deputy Fife (more on that later), is also on the program. Journalists from the local media, following a tradition that began...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...Mexico, and Washington. Beneath them all lies a deeper reality—local people decided for themselves what laws were just and what laws were unjust, and behaved accordingly. In Díaz's analysis, this...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...that Theriot sidesteps: to what extent is coastal restoration premised on protecting the hydrocarbon industry and oil and gas firms? What happens when coastal restoration threatens industry survival? When the...
And the Prize Goes to...
...studies. Finally, the class noted Delerme's combination of tools from linguistics and sonic studies that opened up her subjects in ways that left them wanting to learn more. One student...