Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...work that she views the language that she writes as if she saw her pages from the air, as if "from an airplane."3William Carlos Williams's pioneering essay, "The Work of...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...included and there is no apparent logic to why one has been selected over others (why RCRA and not the Clean Air Act, with its citizen enforcement provisions?). More importantly,...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...it, warning that "other states should understand that this is a family affair, and if they don't keep their hands out of it, Kansas is likely to back Leavenworth up...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...turmoil in relation to her intellectual and artistic pursuits. In her letter to Corse, she ponders the reasons for her despair and notes that she finds that such spells are...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...at the Bell Aircraft bomber plant editing their publications. He continued to drink heavily, and he began to have an affair with a woman he met at the plant, calling...
The Border South
...we quickly discover that the South was not closed but permeable, not sealed airtight but punctured with openings. The region included Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, in the east and stretched...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...from nearly every one. While the National Park Service had an official nondiscrimination policy, typical of New Deal federal agencies it worked hard to avoid interfering with "local customs." As...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...you, they messed with your hair, they put white powder on you, all that was discrimination, and it was not right" (247). Despite the rich evidence presented here, including powerful...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...defense spending and the Sunbelt got the disproportionate share, whether it was defense contractors in southern California, aircraft manufacturers in Dallas and Atlanta, or nuclear reactors in South Carolina. As...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...airplane and boat suggest parallel devotional differences between Miami's mostly lower-class "Little Haiti" and various middle- and upper-class suburban enclaves. Haitians in middle- and upper-class neighborhoods outside of Miami (such...