Bodies and Souls
...it had a practical foundation. And when I returned to filmmaking, it was with an appreciation for the intersection of policy and social change. For my thesis film in graduate...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...deceased. Because the memorials are located in open, public spaces, the adorning accessories change with time. Items may be added or vanish. Silk flowers fade and discolor. Plush toys become...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...while working feverishly to change them into something else" (front cover flap). Outlining the enormous human-induced change along the Mississippi is a formidable task, but Klein and Zellmer unveil some...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Public Health 106, no. 10 (2016): 1734–1737, https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303422; Russell Rickford, "'We Can't Grow Food on All This Concrete': The Land Question, Agrarianism, and Black Nationalist Thought in the Late 1960s...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...and surrounding regions), I felt a special obligation to give something back in exchange for the many gifts of beauty and insight bestowed upon me over the years. Since I...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Subgroup 2, Series 41, Box 1, Department of Agriculture, Georgia Archives; Hal Allen, "Air War Set in Macon Area on White-Fringed Beetle," Macon Telegraph, July 15, 1946, 1; "Battle against...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...move through the world compelled by important motive. The characterizations are swift and precise, rooted in gesture, speech and action."2Suzanne Berne, "Swamped," New York Times Book Review (22 Sept. 1996): 16. Kirkus Reviews 11...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...raises serious constitutional concerns . . . Things have changed in the South."2Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. One v. Holder, Transcript, No. 08-322, 557 US 193 (2009), 195, 202,...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...as the region’s unique “spiritual geography.”7Tom Rankin, Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993), 7. Rankin’s three photographs in the “Outlands” exhibit chronicle the...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Theater," (M.H.P. thesis, University of Georgia, 1999), 11-19. Hollingshead's difficulty in securing first-run films continued to be a common complaint of drive-in operators. Hollingshead's drive-in established some basic parameters for...