Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...October 2, 2005. The date confirms that the morgue service was still operating thirty-four days after the storm. Other markings “Cans of DayGlo spray paint were handed out by FEMA...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...previous experiences, we trusted we would find people willing to talk. We met an energetic young farmer named Noél Parrapito our first day there. For two days he took us...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...he's "saved" on the job and takes weekends off to spend time with his family. His simplistic vision of Louisiana is where, in Marty's words, "folks enjoy community" and "a...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...South, has been almost exclusively Black and White. Moreover, because Black labor and the racial climate tended to discourage large numbers of immigrants, Atlanta's foreign-born population was only 3% at...
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...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
Review Max Grivno's subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason Dixon Line, 1790–1860, details...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...the South"), Bessie Smith ("Empress of the Blues"), Billie Holiday ("Lady Day")—frame Faulkner's South as "birthplace" and wellspring rather than the tonal dearth of art that he and Mencken conjured....
When the Border Crossed Me
...my piece of land more profitable. The disparity began to weigh on me. Thirty years later, I look back to the day the border first crossed me. That day I...