Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...sent to a federal prison in Georgia in the spring of 1958, Kasper was usually in Tennessee but only rarely in custody. As a freelance provocateur, his services were in...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...the plantation through the Civil War until freedom came in the spring of 1865. Some newly freed people also stayed in the vicinity. For example, the man Scipio listed in...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...Boyhood emerges from what may be Western literature's most enduring narrative form that we are able to "read" it with ease, even as it does something no single movie has...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...Raymond Sedotal, whose profile appears on Northwestern State University's Louisiana Folklife Center's website. If you venture into the Bluebonnet swamp in my pirogue, the sound of the nearby interstate traffic...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
Readings Fall Creek As though shedding an old skin, Fall Creek slips free from fall's weight, clots of leaves blackening snags, back of pool where years ago local lore...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...in a colonial epistemological tradition is not always fully interrogated. As the philosopher and novelist Sylvia Wynter writes in "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/ Power/Truth/ Freedom," the term "humanity" has...
The Liminal Site
...is worth while," they wrote, "also to provide parks of the mountain type—places where people can climb, can enjoy the wild woods, and can enjoy that sense of freedom and...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...students responded. Jose raised his hand and mentioned "freedom of speech," "Martin Luther King," and the "I Have A Dream Speech," while Christina angrily declared, "They just don't like us!"...
Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010
...a sit-in on Freedom Plaza. While mountaintop removal is often considered an Appalachian problem, this protest and its depiction of the federal Army Corps of Engineers points to the complexity...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story, 2010. I came to the work of Raymond Andrews in 2002, my final year...