A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...conduct interviews as resources became available between 2003 and 2008. Before writing questions I would often revisit the MARBL archive to re-read the letters between Raymond and each interviewee. I...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
Banner image for Driving Through Time, DocSouth, 2012. Review Well-worn words and phrases come to mind when driving the Blue Ridge Parkway—stunning, dramatic, timeless, a miracle of engineering and landscape...
The Shenandoah Valley
...park. Park promoters and historians for years tried to justify the taking by fabricating cultural, economic, social, and ethnic differences between the mountain and Valley residents. Mountaineers were stereotyped as...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...entrenchment of health disparities; the ways that race and gender shape and are shaped by health policy; and the inseparable connection between health justice and health advocacy. Public health scholarship...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...us that the best we can do in most cases is piece together bits of information about the lives of others. Given this incomplete knowledge, we're better off not passing...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...Christmas tree farm landscape, with portable toilet in the foreground, offer an image of untouched nature, extractive economy, or something in between (Figure 23)? Or consider Wes Frazer's photograph of...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...gap, often hierarchically valued, between creole cultures and 'cultures of origin'" (61). Laitinen's perspective helpfully elucidates the Caribbean religious landscape from which Vodou emerges and, by implication, problematizes "syncretism" as...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...shower cap walks down a road. She is centered and small. The landscape around her—the flat farmland, the big sky, the tin-roofed shack, and the two-lane highway—marks the place as...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...would follow religiously till their last breath. While the fear of miscegenation between black and white had remained the driving force behind Helper's abolitionist rhetoric, the union between Asian and...