Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Splenetic Disposition." Richardson's congregation, he says, refused to allow him to introduce Watts's hymns or the Lord's Prayer in services, but he used both in his family devotions "to the...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...gradual path to extinction in parts of the United States and on a more immediate one in Haiti. In the 1830s this international movement reached its apex as the British...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...the mundane, and found ourselves in the back of a fast food restaurant drinking Coors Light from bottles, chalking cues where we were the only customers. We ate crawfish among...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...in Atlanta, Jeff Drew's father, John (1908–1991), co-founded the Alexander Insurance Agency with the mission of providing affordable insurance to Black customers. While a Morehouse student, John Drew met Alfred...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...ILA Local 3000, due to both the legally untenable nature of segregated memberships and the poor prospect of survival in the face of declining numbers. United Fruit Company banana conveyors,...
Bodies and Souls
Bodies and Souls: Video and Essay When the body is falling apart, it's hard to pay attention to what your soul is telling you. —Sister Manette Durand Map of Jonestown,...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Etcheson. "These events united free-state settlers in the conviction that their political rights and liberties were being trampled by a government determined to impose slavery upon them."12Nicole Etcheson, Bleeding Kansas: Contested...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...companies—food services, janitorial services, book stores. Corporations like Sodexho-Marriott that provide those food services to schools are also making money off running for-profit private prisons, at the very moment that...