Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...signifies for Glissant the whole environment comprising the poem, human and nonhuman animals, vegetation, rocks, lavas, and 'nature' and 'culture.' The latter terms lose meaning since they exist in a...
Palomares Bajo
...a no-contact policy with townsfolk, a formula for global speculation and local resentment. "Little heed to the outside world"? Little knowledge of Cold War geopolitics? "The whole subject ... an...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...sunset rivers of hope where the worst of us, the very worst of all, might find a seventh chance. Heaven And yet I don't want not to believe in, little...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...Political Economy of Southern Racism (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987). Georgia had the second highest number of lynchings from 1890–1900.75Susan Olzak, "The Political Context of Competition: Lynching and Urban Racial...
Dirty Little Story
...county doesn't take the initiative to help maintain its biggest asset: a beautiful lake. On the other hand are citizens who have so little respect for themselves or one another...
Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
...what poor little Lucy Mae do That Tuesday woman, she took pocket change That Wednesday woman, she wanna do the same Better not let my good gal catch you here...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...family vacations included mandatory excursions to museums, libraries, and historical sites. To ensure that my little brother and I "enjoyed" cultural experiences of all stripes, we toured the Smithsonian in...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...a comment from a researcher that I hired to track down historical film and video of black Chicago. One day during a phone call she expressed anger and frustration at...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...simply edited and reprinted wire service stories, then added a comment on the opinion page and a letter to the editor or two. So it is a little striking that...