A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...previous two films, 2008's Hunger and 2011's Shame, 12 Years a Slave is gorgeously shot, edited with a jeweler's eye, and uses its sound design to bleed scenes into one...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...the murder, funeral, trial, and their aftermath. More precisely, Mace argues that there were significant differences in how print media covered the events based on section of the country—Midwest, Northeast,...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...of 1960—which offered "protection for congregations' property rights" if they choose to break away from denominations that publically supported integration—passed through the Mississippi legislature and was signed into law by...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
..."tableau of street theater," Hudson writes, that corrals the contradictions of Jim Crow into one city block. Black and white, mostly men, stand in the vicinity of a sign for...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...a coherent collection now housed at the Library of Virginia. The collection includes correspondence and drafts of reports but also, significantly, personal diaries and journals from both workers and patients—a...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
... This essay reveals a troubling pattern: for Latinos and African Americans, public high schools in the Metro Atlanta region are experiencing significant racial shifts with greater levels of segregation than...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...by marginal groups with traditions distinct from lowland, mainstream populations.38Robert Rhoades, "Integrating Local Voices and Visions into the Global Mountain Agenda," Mountain Research and Development 20(1)(2000), 4-9. A significant portion...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...he discussed the botanical and cultural aspects of several fruits. In this segment, he talks about the physical characteristics and historical significance of the fig. Steve Bransford, Figs from Ryan...
The Chesapeake Bay
...they were not conservationists. They cleared lands and moved as necessary, their low numbers making little impact on the available resources (with the significant exception of white-tail deer which Indians...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...the site's true significance miss a significant opportunity to illuminate history. Charles D. Thompson, Jr., Pedro Rodriguez Pérez, a Cuban farmer, Trinidad, Cuba, December 2010. From "Visions for Sustainable Agriculture...