Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...happen when the rent subsidies ran out. The lack of public transportation also made finding employment especially difficult for low-income displaced. Single mothers seeking work lacked affordable, accessible childcare. In...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Missouri Bootheel by late 1937, 2009. Also indicates Highways 60 and 61 and the location of the spillway. (larger version) Despite these gains, the crisis for landless farmers only accelerated...
Besieged Terrain
...removal (MTR), involves scraping off the top layers of earth and dumping them into a nearby hollow. Federal law requires the mining companies to either restore the land, which they...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...out lawlessness, ringing the bells of the people supposed to be regulating and protecting the watershed. There was a lawsuit, another lawsuit, another lawsuit. The federal judges were sympathetic to...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...while Lowe seems to primarily read George Lamming only in relation to Richard Wright, Jelly-Schapiro reads Lamming directly in relation to Barbados, casually nodding to Wright in describing Lamming as...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...system of labor organization central to rice plantations marks a salient distinction to the gang labor system of the sugar islands. Although Hubs of Empire is excellent, I would have...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...Map by Richard Campanella. Originally published in Richard Campanella's Bienville's Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans (University of Louisiana Press, 2008). Campanella’s map of flood depths uses approximately the...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...German settlement patterns and raises questions about longstanding assumptions regarding the presence of slavery as the determining factor in German settlement. Selected from a large number of submissions, these essays...