Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Courtesy of Willena Scott-White. Scott made miracles in the cotton field, not far from Fannie Lou Hamer's visionary Freedom Farm. He carried food, prepared by his wife Edna and their...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...the plantation through the Civil War until freedom came in the spring of 1865. Some newly freed people also stayed in the vicinity. For example, the man Scipio listed in...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...able to escape. He isn't being watched, save by the God who allegedly demands his servitude, and the woods around him seem to provide endless routes to freedom. But quite...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...death. Climate change generates public health threats that include natural disasters and the creation of warm, virus-nurturing environments that promote chikungunya, dengue fever, ebola, and zika—diseases that call to mind the...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
Introduction Counties in the Appalachian Region. Map created by the Appalachian Regional Commission, October 8, 2008, arc.gov/images/appregion/AppalachianRegionCountiesMap.pdf. Of countless images over the last century, attempts to frame Appalachia's landscape and...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...of Miami's religious landscape that evolves at the crossroads of Catholic, Protestant, and Vodouist praxes. Crossing the Water, Notre Dame d'Haiti Catholic Church, Little Haiti, Miami. Mural by Alex Jean...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...Irma (2017). Hurricane Matthew, in particular, uprooted many of the older live oaks on the island and otherwise dramatically altered its landscape. Although Ossabaw is often labeled as "pristine," humans...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...Doug Sahm) with the exception being Marcia Ball, who were already living in Texas or had gravitated to Austin's heterogeneous soundscape from New York, Los Angeles, or Nashville. Armadillo World Headquarters,...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...and other artists. His musical portrait, Southscape, was released in August of 2005. The nine tracks include eight new songs written or co-written by Leavell and a re-visitation of "Jessica"....
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...environmental justice, environmental racism, agroecology, landscape architecture, eco-literature, ecological historic preservation, sustainability, biodiversity, foodways, activism, eco-feminism, deep ecology, environmental law, ethical consumerism, corporate environmental policy, environmental ethics, spirituality and religion,...