Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993) and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (Norton, 2000). Forthcoming books include A...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
Mississippi as Metaphor Part 2: Dr. Crespino discusses and suggests the limits of James Silver’s image of Mississippi as “the closed society” Part 3: Dr. Crespino traces the idea of Mississippi as...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...published work in the field of environmental studies include: Mikko Saikku, Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Shirley Stewart Burns, Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia Peter West, Trying...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...at Duke University. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993), Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (Jackson: University...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
Queer [__] Revolution? "The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it." —James Baldwin "The gay revolution began as a literary revolution." This is the first...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...Studies at Duke. His books include Sacred Space: Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993); Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1995); Local Heroes...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...miedo entre los inmigrantes mayas y otros latinos en el estado. Los agentes de bienes raíces, los concesionarios de autos y los minoristas de los barrios de inmigrantes han reportado...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...but also to act as quasi agents of forces with trajectories, propensities, or tendencies of their own."21Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010),...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...woman to North Carolina to learn to make native dyes. "Authenticity" in handicrafts, Choctaws and BIA agents understood, would create a more marketable product (105). As the Choctaws improved their...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...Anthropocene, has speeded up our species' access to matter until we now create our own weather events, our own set of fractures. Humans are reborn as geologic agents, as the...