New Shades o'Death Creek
...and Droop, stretched a flat featureless landscape, dotted here and there by a gray pond. At the near edge a few stunted trees clung to life. "How big is it?"...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...science and technology across the land, by government programs that favored wealthier farmers, and by USDA discrimination. African Americans had continually moved out of the South to escape violence, gain...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...coast who often vacationed there to escape the summer heat and who had built numerous mansions encircling the town boundaries. Many of the town people were merchants or tradesmen, not planters,...
Searcy County Livestock Auction
...county's landscape and political economy. I have continued to return almost every year as I work on my dissertation about Mexican guest workers who plant trees for reforestation companies owned...
When the Border Crossed Me
...agriculture. The borderlands overtook me personally and professionally. I cannot escape their meaning—not just down at the southern line below the United States, but the little borders everywhere in our...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...work and see the company as protecting their homes and livelihoods. Many others leave in search of work or to escape the impacts of MTR; steady emigration from the area...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...rap record labels, Cash Money and No Limit, and their artist mega-stars––Mystikal, Juvenile, Lil Wayne, and others––would ultimately develop their own unique sounds born out of this fascinating soundscape and...
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...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...following a letter dated 6 Aug. 1960. Nancy Marshall, The stable, Andalusia, Spring 2007. This rural landscape figures prominently in O'Connor's fiction. "The Enduring Chill," a short story...