"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...were not just spaces he traveled through but places that laid claim to his emotions, places whose cultures and institutions and landscapes shaped his experience and imagination. In his life,...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...commonplace in these dangerous waters. In exploring the roots of blacks' investment in the land, Kahrl also highlights the centrality of communal notions of land ownership that undergirded the acquisition...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...embarrassed that my photographs offered no tangible benefits in a place that seemed to value useful things that aided survival: firewood, bean seeds, a cut of cloth. Then, as I...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...over the Dutch door separating the kitchen from the main public space, through which beverage purchases are passed, reads, "This is a high class place. Act respectable." In one corner...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...and lieutenant governor; South Carolina's house speaker; Texas' attorney general and speaker; and Florida's attorney general and president of the state senate. The Florida legislature has become the first state...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...knew we had to have some because the film is about a specific place, the Lumbee homelands of North Carolina. But we didn't have a budget to drive to place...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...for best film, and Quvenzhané Wallis, his spunky, firebreathing star, may be crowned best actress. In the movie she plays the part of one of Louisiana's Katrina-surviving, throwaway children, but...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...can do better than that. They can make their representatives justify the trust placed in them. They can demand more of their government. They can assert a right to land...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...questions of authorship and interlinked notions of authority implicit in the attempt to write across boundaries of race, gender, and class, effectively positioning myself out of place as an artist. Who...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...site, a place where visitors could pull off the highway to stop at the memorial, a place for meditation and for ongoing education. Former Greyhound terminal, downtown Anniston, Alabama, 2009....