Elegy for the Native Guards
...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...back and forth and back and forth in their boat while I photographed. I had to figure out what lens I used back in 1987. It took awhile to get...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...car in the Quarter. Cell phones came out, some calling 911, others telling what happened. Word of mouth was that Joe the bar owner had shot the man for selling...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...billion dollars less than in 2008. By the end of the coming year, North Carolina will drop to forty-seventh or forty-eighth in pupil expenditures and teacher pay.10Rankings and Estimates: Rankings...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...in play. (Thus, the handout with the full text of the poems). The talk is about forty-five minutes in length; I will look forward to your comments, questions, and suggestions...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...to a twenty-three million dollar campus in 2000, paid for by the state of Louisiana.1This is the number my wife (NOCCA '04) told me when I asked her on Gchat...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...Cuban Democracy (Torricelli) Act and the 1996 Helms-Burton Act, which codified divisions between the nations and tightened the grip of the US economic embargo in an effort to force political...