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...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...read the late twentieth century writings of Octavia Butler, Steven Barnes, and Samuel R. Delany alongside the visual images of early 20th century artists, like Aaron Douglas. Exploring connections across genres and time periods, as...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Enslavement The monuments commemorating the Foot Soldiers and Andrew Young construct new layers of meaning for the Plaza de la Constitución, yet the site is rarely labeled on tourist maps...
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...
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...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...a not-quite-attractive-enough limbo. For instance, even as Campanella uses the Bywater as an example of NOLA-gentrification par excellence, he ignores the relocation of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA)...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Sea Level, the band toured heavily during the late 1970s and released five albums. Catching the ears of and becoming friends with the late rock 'n' roll impresario Bill Graham...