The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...the family, what's happened since? Howard: The family came together, was made stronger, understood themselves better, and were better able to talk with each other. Roughly midway through The Joneses,...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...and McLane note, "The dramatis personae of the Flaherty films are the nuclear family structured along conventional lines."7Jack C. Ellis and Betsy A. McLane, A New History of Documentary Film, (NY:...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...never seen any place like this before. I had grown up in the Clearwater–Tampa Bay area, which was then probably three hours or more down the road. There are better...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I wonder if you have observed that 60/40 split, that separation between 60 percent of the state, which does protect LGBT people, and the other 40 percent. Could you tell...
Race
...look from an ivory spouse who is learning her husband's caesuras. She can see silent spaces but not what they signify, graphite markings in a forester's code. Many others have...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...since the 1960s, many locations in the Appalachian South, like rural and working-class communities across the nation, have experienced the rise of extreme economic inequality, and a growing divide between...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...first book contributes immensely to US southern, economic, gender, and political history. Examining the experiences of black female convicts in Georgia between emancipation and the 1920s, No Mercy Here enriches...
On Fair Use
...higher education. The United States Copyright Office outlines its "fair use" policy in Section 107 of Title 17 of the United States Code, enumerating "various purposes for which the reproduction...
The Carolina Piedmont
...to desegregate factories and workplaces, or in the number of newly elected black officials. In reaction, drawing upon anti-government resentment and racial codewords, initiatives such as Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...The "slave market" became the focal point for the 1964 St. Augustine Movement—a clash between nonviolent protestors and segregationists—prior to President Lyndon Johnson's signing the Civil Rights Act.2Dan R. Warren,...