Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
Review The intricate mapping of Louisiana below Interstate 10 in HBO's 2014 series True Detective generates more than just the obvious voyeurism of extreme poverty that marks so many shows...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...settle on any image for more than a few seconds, save for two: the cover of Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd (1960), and one of the revelers preparing to heave...
"Aint that Something?"
...win many friends at a high school where most of the students have family working for the coal company and Friends of Coal stickers decorate the principal's office. When she...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...purity and primitivism took on enhanced value . . ." (3). One thing that distinguishes Cohen from the Lomaxes is Cohen's independence from any institutional affiliation like the Library of...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...rally in downtown Houston on the first day of the janitors strike, Houston, Texas, October 23, 2006. Photograph by Meenu Bhardwaj for SEIU. Courtesy of Flickr. Creative Commons license CC...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...and Monsanto benefited from lucrative federal contracts, forging tight relationships with government agencies that protected the company, its products, and its practices from scrutiny, even as the company grew at...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...struggle with the J. P. Stevens corporation. While the episode called attention to Sutton, it also showed many other mill women front and center. A bold, multi-faceted effort, the campaign...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...of the Piedmont style because many other elements have coexisted in its musical tradition. For example, Mitchell recorded instrumental dance songs like "Pole Plattin'" and "16–20" that were vestiges of...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...the prison of the home. They were subject to constant surveillance and the threat of return to the prison camp for any transgression; private individuals, many of whom were now...