Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
Introduction Don Candelario and a vegetable truck from The Guestworker, 2007. Charles D. Thompson, Jr., writes about agriculture and migration and has co-produced two documentaries on the subject: Brother Towns/Pueblos...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to take, returning the rest to forage through the delta mud. The numbers in the coolers spoke: they were falling, 300 pounds, 225, 175. Every year they fell—he remembers 1,500...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...identified or how each relationship was defined, loss was always loss, though the grief that followed could take many forms. Loss and grief irrevocably altered the makeup of one's days....
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Deltans migrated to Memphis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Los Angeles—anywhere offering hope for a better life. Most counties in the Delta have lost more than half of their population in the last...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...people have drawn on a limited number of tropes. Whether Bayard Wootten's photographic illustrations for Cabins in the Laurel,1Muriel Earley Sheppard, Cabins in the Laurel (Chapel Hill: University of North...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...known musician in Talbot County. He recalled the many times he walked away with prizes offered at the theater in nearby Junction City. 'I was rough then,' he said. 'I...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...are doing and lose the course of the action, they lose the written synthesis. It is true that I have had some unique experiences—I would say mystical—during writing itself. It...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...how this “accidental city” became one of the most significant urban areas in the Americas. From the beginning, the city’s location caused headaches. After disastrous flooding in 1719, Bienville quickly...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...the NYFCC Awards, someone in the crowd allegedly shouted: "You're an embarrassing doorman and a garbage man! Fuck you. Kiss my ass." Most media outlets identified the heckler as City...
Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...