Mississippi Delta
...to replace the forests, canebrakes, and marshes, changing the economy, ecology, and visual landscape. Successful agricultural work required reservoirs of slaves and money, making the Delta a region dominated by...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...and a coalition of scientists and middle-class suburbanites, who pushed for the preservation of free-flowing streams. It also helps Manganiello demonstrate how recurring cycles of flooding and drought, abundance and...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...life, and landscape often resembled an album whose intended audience was also its subject. Each town and city seemed to have its acknowledged "picture man" or woman, people such as...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...once-natural landscape with images of how human activity has altered that landscape. Bertolaet's drawings and texts, hand-written in white ink on the photographs black margins, are variously wry, poignant, and...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...into the landscape of O'Connor's stories. The place is eerily quiet except for the occasional sounds from the auto sales lot p.a. system nearby on Highway 441. Once inside the...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010
...a sit-in on Freedom Plaza. While mountaintop removal is often considered an Appalachian problem, this protest and its depiction of the federal Army Corps of Engineers points to the complexity...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story Somebody Else, Somewhere Else: The Raymond Andrews Story, 2010. I came to the work of Raymond Andrews in 2002, my final year...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...either side of the Mason-Dixon line, the contemporary policing of racialized spaces—all can be understood not only as battle lines in freedom struggles but also as unacknowledged elements of urban...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...disabled and mentally ill in the same way we do today. Therefore, words like "Lunatic" and "Idiot" appear in both the names of asylums and in medical literature. They used...