The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
The Bulletin—April 3, 2013
...block the enforcement of the new law. African American legislators in Arkansas have compared the new law to the poll taxes used in southern states during the Jim Crow era....
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...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...bereft: there is no term to describe the successful interface of natural and built environs. Outside cities, we have any number of categories for describing natural landscapes. The "wilderness" and...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...digs into environmentalism to understand its flaws, contradictions and their ramifications.4Paul Sabin, "Environmental Law and the End of the New Deal Order," Law and History Review 33, no. 4 (November...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...monthly payments can mean the difference between destitution and modest survival.4This estimate of the number of black lung beneficiaries is extrapolated from data on the number of claims filed each...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...health and healing where there were small numbers of Black patients.11Fett, Working Cures. Gonaver warns us not to read Galt's attitude as any kind of emancipatory rhetoric, but as representing...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
.... .alarming . . . invasive . . .a violation . . .lawless graffiti . . . disrespectful . . .”12These are words and phrases that cropped up repeatedly in...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...southern culture. The images include romanticized moonshine runners evading the law, country singers meeting their fate in Cadillacs (the 1952 Cadillac Hank Williams died in attracts visitors in Mongomery, Alabama),...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Endless Amusement," on topics ranging from local laws and coop design to breed selection and health issues. The class was over-enrolled, and it had a waiting list. And so it...