Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Deep Ellum Blues
...only chronological history of the revival of Deep Ellum that I know of is provided by The Dallas Observer: https://web.archive.org/web/20030718034108/http://thedoordallas.com/rdh/observer_july_1999.htm. ;I mention this because the club now seems to me to have...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...chicken laws for the new municipality — it had occurred to no one to write them into the original code. As of this writing, they need only one more City...
Our Backward Revolution
...to the shifting currents of public opinion. You don’t have to be a historian to list the developments that set us on the road to the election of Donald Trump...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Creek runs through a maze of backyard overgrowth, accessible only with permission. To trace the creek now is to trespass. Care falls to individual whim or the conscience of private...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...senses of place are often also sites of contestation."7Rose et al., Introduction to Feminist Geographies, 9. This focus on space as a site of contestation serves as a dominant focus...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...millennium, classes had spread from the University of Oklahoma to Oklahoma State, campuses where significant numbers of Creek students are enrolled. Martin's own work would expand tremendously with grammars, Creek-to-English...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...a year-round school [closer to home] or have them go to a traditional one, often with an unattractive starting time and long commute" (68). Neither conformed to the model of...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...the “overwhelming power” of the music joined with a feeling of being welcomed into an international “family” or “incredible community” of singers.13See the “Sacred Harp Singers of Cork” group on...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...system of federal or state funding or planning for road building and when the affected states (especially in the South) had little to no bureaucratic, professional, or labor infrastructure to...