Product Description: Throughout the 20th century, African Americans from impoverished, historically black counties, left the South to pursue what they thought would be a better life in the North. Some stayed, and William W. Falk tells the story of an extended family in the Georgia-South Carolina Lowcountry...read more

Product Description: The image of rural America portrayed in this illuminating study is one that is vibrant, regionally varied, and sometimes heroic. Communities of Work focuses on the ways in which rural people and places are affected by political, social, and economic forces far outside their control and how they sustain themselves and their communities in response...read more

Product Description: On the surface they look very different—rugged northern New England with its primarily White population, the arid Lower Rio Grande Valley inhabited mainly by Hispanics, the green and humid Mississippi Delta with a mix of Black and White residents...read more

Product Description: Book by Falk, William W.