Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Campaign and the Struggle to Organize the South, 1963–80 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2005). In a film based on the Stevens campaign, Norma Rae (Sally Fields) holds up a...
Hill Brothers Short Log Harvesting
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...as I'm concerned, a person has a right to be opaque." See Manthia Diawara's film Un monde en relation (2009). Similarly, he writes in Poetics of Relation, "Opacities can coexist and converge, weaving fabrics....
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...his pictures emphasize the chaotic nature of the post-Katrina Gulf Coast landscape, along with the difficulties of restoring human-made order. He prefers to photograph using black-and-white film; for him, color...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...A short film by Mary Battle, 2008. Almost all of Sibley's later mysteries speak to land development in northern Georgia. In those mysteries, the villains turn out to be greedy...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...depots to make all food supplies immediately available to those in the Homeless Junction camp. In addition, the FSA, at Roosevelt's urging, announced it would deliver tents to the camp....
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...project management software Basecamp, Franky was able to delegate tasks more easily and we could see what other staffers were working on. When I joined in 2007, many scholars were...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript Dorothy Moye, Upper Ninth Ward house with "KEN" marking from private contractor, 2009. It was a late afternoon in June 2006, and I was lost...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
Introduction I left Guatemala May 28. I had problems crossing into Mexico from Guatemala. Mexican officials threw me back eight times but I kept trying. They tried to get me...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
Introduction The Lower Chattahoochee River Valley region has a rich tradition of blues music, but if it weren't for the efforts of field researcher George Mitchell from 1969 until the...