Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...or easy connection to the outside world. As the family drives up, Mildred's face beams as she sees her new home—glistening white in the sunlight, surrounded by wide-open space. Richard smiles...
Besieged Terrain
...the people who had destroyed them. Map showing Robinson Forest and surrounding sites of mountaintop removal and strip-mining, Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2012. Map by Southern Spaces, created with Google Earth...
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...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...of what that meant. I was taken with the romantic idea of wizened faces, old women in doorways, men plowing into the sunsets, hog butchering in the misty morning light....
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...Stanford University in 2002. His research interests focus on the political culture of twentieth-century America, in particular, the US South. Crespino's first book, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...Inman Park, and Lake Claire. Charis is now one of the oldest feminist bookstores in the country, and its history is intertwined with the histories not only of the feminist...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...Bar. We were at the end of the second-line for Tuba Fats' huge jazz funeral just over a week ago Sunday. Band members were leaving as conversation and memories of...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...they died. Down in the Delta, the alluvial floodplain between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers in northwest Mississippi, perennially listed as the poorest and most unhealthy region in the country,...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...terms of country of origin and where they settled in the state), class, race, and gender. We chose people who had lived the "American dream" of achieving financial success, but also...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...concluding that: "The anti-Communist sort of hysteria that was gripping the country and the anti-Black hysteria that was certainly gripping the South, all got rolled up in a ball and...