James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...a biologist. He could have been a lawyer. He could have been a writer. He could have been a public official. But James Holland was needed on the ground, on...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...the USDA discriminated against all poor farmers, southern USDA officials focused on black farmers. The dramatic events of Freedom Summer in 1964 eclipsed an important SNCC initiative to elect black...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
Review Water Graves investigates how contemporary writers and artists of the greater Caribbean (such as Jason deCaires Taylor) reinvest sites of racialized violence and environmental degradation—as so many manifestations of...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
Family Forestry Part 2: 3/3/02 Leavell revisits the site of the logging operation to explain how the loading deck is transformed to a feed plot Part 3: 3/15/05 Leavell returns...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...while eloquent, are off the mark. Beasts is not a slice of life or a realist screed; its business is mythological: it proffers a sacred narrative with overtones of awe...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...forms a suggestive parallel to the southern novel, as it continues to develop as a site of political fiction that uses the "not dead" past to reflect on problems in...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...on these vulnerable bodies. This manifested as a hyper-focus on the enslaved body as a site/sight of physical domination under the various machinations of white terror. This representation of Black...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...documents the religious lives of the region’s black residents and evokes how people sacralize the landscape through spiritual expression. His images of the churches and cemeteries that dot the Delta’s...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...privileged in static narratives or histories. The Ghost Map series, for example, is a composite of vector-based GIS layers, archival materials, and oral histories that document changes in the physical...