Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...served by improved roads, was the "gateway to Florida" (10, 58), and provides a useful window into larger debates about centralization, planning, funding, and labor. Dixie Highway's tendency to use...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...setting of her fiction not only because it is familiar, but also because she finds a means of entering, through its peculiar apertures, an altogether different metaphysical locus. For this...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...from some of the local poor, whose wait for housing and social services was extended because the evacuees received priority. In part because they recognized that the federal government was...
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Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...wild landscapes have remained virtually untouched." Ironically, the photograph the PBS program chose to use on its opening page shows a site that is far from a "natural" area devoid...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the growing of rice. Trapping and hunting supplemented agricultural production, with communal identity reinforced through typical rural rituals such as house raisings, weekly house dances, horse racing, and traditional music....
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...of the Georgia House of Representatives would write that the flag, "is becoming to be [sic] the symbol of the white race and the cause of the white people. The...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...reason they built the cabin there was because the water is always 70 or 72 degrees. This is right on the creek by a spring, and the house stayed cool...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...game on display inside and outside the house, exude a contemporary animist faith of sorts. In the demanding and sometimes cruel code of honor that even the most “outlaw” members...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...Points/Candler Park patronized Charis because, as one respondent put it, "it was in the neighborhood, and women ran it."2Jane and Anne [pseud.], interviewed by Saralyn Chesnut, tape recording, Atlanta, GA,...