Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...I began to investigate the possibility some seven years ago, I was surprised to learn that it was perfectly legal to have a coop in Decatur. So I approached my...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...
Cajun South Louisiana
...in south Louisiana in the late 1770s, and the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was a turning point in rising Anglo influence. Before then, there were seven times as many French...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Mississippi have not succeeded in liberating themselves from the limits set by the natural world. In many places along the lower Mississippi and its tributaries—including the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta—it might have...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
Introduction Filmed during the 1990s and released on PBS in 2000, Goin’ to Chicago is a sixty minute film about the largest internal movement of people in United States history—the...
Sweep
...lived here all year I'd buy American, I'd drive a truck, and I'm thinking of football and my father's and Mike's words staking out an absence I know I won't...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...still can function as racial partitions. Photography is often implicated in this demarcation of space. (top left) Fun!; (top row middle) Unsold houses amid red clay; (top right) Mimicked eaves;...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...deaths in Mississippi each year is eight."2Clay Harden, "Tornadoes Slam Mississippi: Families, Businesses Sort through Rubble," Jackson [Mississippi] Clarion-Ledger, February 27, 2001, 7A. Unlike states in Tornado Alley (which generally...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...legal presumptions, and other issues, this conflict over the definition and causation of black lung is intensely political: it involves the ideological content of medicine's view of disease, including the...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...World. Importantly, Carpentier stresses that "the extraordinary is not necessarily lovely or beautiful. It is neither beautiful or ugly; rather it is amazing because it is strange" ("Baroque" 101). But...