New Shades o'Death Creek
Excerpt Set in West Virginia, this excerpt from Giardina's novel of time-space travel, Fallam's Secret (2003), evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountaintop removal in the southern Appalachians. On...
Miner's sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia
John Vachon, Miner's sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF34-032709-D....
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...and canefield. The overarching visual techniques are compositing and double exposure, combining photographs mostly from Misrach's Cancer Alley exhibition (Petrochemical America) with the outlines of bodies and faces: the face...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...capital to enhance economic opportunities and improved life chances for all Memphians. North America's Distribution Center Today, the city's most recognizable symbol of the global economy is Federal Express, headquartered...
Deep Ellum Blues
...to mark subtle social distinctions in the areas that developed along its path. The most affluent regions of North Dallas were almost always located to the west of the expressway:...
Men at Home: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
...or inherited common sense of a specific question.1Louis Althusser uses the phrase "an answer to a question that is nowhere posed" in Althusser, Reading Capital, 29. For an explication of...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...is aptly captured by/in two recent films. Winter's Bone, set in the rural Ozarks, vividly portrays the psychosocial costs of geographical isolation, lack of economic and educational opportunity, and sense...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...know that there will be no break in the violence, both casual and spectacular, on Epps's plantation. Every night has the potential for slaves to be called from their quarters...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...North Carolina, ca. 1930–1950. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of the Southern Historical Collection, Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. At the time...