The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
Interview Southern Spaces: How did you begin the project that became this remarkable documentary The Joneses? https://vimeo.com/390791326 The Joneses Trailer. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. John Howard: Jheri (at the...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...Sheeba Pawar, and Amel Omari, "Leading with HEART: Working Toward Health Equity with Anti-Racist Teaching," The Pursuit, University of Michigan School of Public Health, April 29, 2021, https://sph.umich.edu/pursuit/2021posts/leading-with-heart.html; Creary, Paul...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...interesting that you highlight that. It was not such an intentional choice. It came about mostly because of budget and what you have time and space to shoot with the...
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
Hurricane Helene Visits Marshall, North Carolina
...Over five feet of water covers the road. Ronnie Meadow’s house inundated. Neighbors wading waist-high water to get his prescriptions and photographs. Stop at Paul and Laurie’s and get water...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...David Thoreau, "Walking," The Atlantic, June 1862, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1862/06/walking/304674/. Bartlett Pond https://vimeo.com/809578671/7e81299b55 Bartlett Pond [27.75246525706928, -82.639758963437] At Bartlett Park, tucked behind Twenty-Second Avenue and Fourth Street, Salt Creek opens into a...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
Public Health Crossings Top, Colonel Bailey K. Ashford, ca. 1893. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Bottom, William H. Hunt, Governor of Puerto Rico, 1901–1904. Courtesy of...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...Worcester, MA, https://americanantiquarian.org/earlyamericannewsmedia/items/show/48. "New method of assorting the mail, as practised [sic] by Southern slave-holders, or attack on the Post Office, Charleston, S.C.," 1835. Lithograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...view of higher education as career training, and corporatized "profit-center" budget models being implemented at many colleges and universities.1Burton R. Clark, Creating Entrepreneurial Universities: Organizational Pathways of Transformation (Oxford: Pergamon...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...prescriptions for hypertension and stress. Clay Primary Health Care Clinic, Clay, WV, 2005. Healthcare also becomes a major issue when coal companies purchase facilities, shut down the operations, lay off...