Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...to be because I had built trust, and that took years. For instance, when we talk about how Angela comes through the desert with her boy, Jesus, that was incredible...
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)...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...The Goodie Mob, Matt Miller's "Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997-2007," June 10, 2008. Cover courtesy of Southern Spaces. Abbott: Some of the earliest pieces I worked...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...Kong Mountains in West Africa.5See also Emmanuel Terray, "Grandeur Et Décadence Des Montagnes De Kong (Decline and Fall of the Kong Mountains)." Cahiers d'Études Africaines 26, no. 101, 102 (1986):...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...troubling in a book that analyzes connections between the United States and the world. For instance, he writes: "The proslavery movement convinced itself that the South could not chance the...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...Appalachian frontier. Stoll likens Appalachia's early settlers to peasants all over the world, who depend on access to a common "ecological base." In the Appalachian instance, this "base" is the...
Brushes with War
...to interpretation as indicative of the emotional turmoil at the midpoint of the war." Instead, the canvas became an instant emblem of the nation's emotional state. "That pathos prompted Herman...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...particular instance, the nature and location of transit projects under consideration, all suggest that a simple bifocal lens that focuses on white suburbs and black cities may no longer be...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...childhood are recounted like scenes from Twain's work, and very much in the spirit of Old Southwestern humor tale. For instance, Guthrie relates one occasion on which he is taunted...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...whirled three times about and fell stone dead. A second followed instantly. At this point, like a furious lion tormented by hunters, Georges, with his axe in his fist and...