Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...Hermanos (2010) and The Guestworker/Bienvenidos a Carolina del Norte (2007). The Guestworker follows Don Cande, a participant in the federal H2A Guest Worker program, through a harvest season in North...
"Aint that Something?"
...include Silas House, Ann Pancake, Amy Greene, and David Joy, among many others. Appalachian authors of color including Nikky Finney, Crystal Wilkinson, Jacinda Townsend, and Frank X Walker dispel pervasive...
Mississippi Delta
...with their financial resources enabling frequent travel, elaborate parties and dances, tasteful decoration of homes, the best food and drink, and education of children at fine schools and colleges across...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...southern gospel. Their gorgeous cover of Hinton’s “Everybody Needs Love” recreates the elements of church, beginning with the elegant opening, “There are moonbeams we can dream on, when our working...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
Review For more than twenty years, scholars have sought in article after book after conference paper to expand the timeline, reach, and definition of environmental concern and activism. This uncoordinated...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...Cave is about two hundred paces from the Hotel. As you advance towards it you pass down a beautiful and picturesque dell" [18]). Such an approach invites his audience to...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...heavily drugged, delivering gun justice to cartel thugs. Marty, a University of Louisiana at Lafayette alum and good old boy, is his more or less straight-laced partner. Their story begins...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...elements to call into question the American variation on the desire to be terrorized by the supernatural, the psychosadistic, and the patently absurd. Our history is laced with horrors we...
Congregation
...use for these words, this easy parsing. This time he tells me he's changed his name: Jo-ell instead of Joel— name of the man who took our mother's life— his...
Love and Death at Second-Line
..."It'll be easier at the vendor outside." He said, "No man, this is Papa Joe's place, buy it from him." I waved the bills over my head, Joe himself saw...