Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...he recalled. "I learned that on the front porch at night, when my grandmother and other people would talk about what the situations were and what needed to be done,...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
..."We accomplished what we set out to do," Lachowski said. "It's not that we are miserable, it's just that we've seen all we're going to see and don't want to...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...long, somewhat controversial tradition in southern literature, one that Richard Gray describes as "a familiar path in Southern writing, in search of the raw and marginal, disrupted lives presented in...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...concerned about the neighborhood. I also noticed a broken window on the side that faces Lakeside which looked like it could possibly have been made by a bullet. Is that...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...Enough Blues.” Mitchell: Yeah. Jim Bunkley: I [laughter] that’s right. He played that. Mitchell: Can you play that one now? Jim Bunkley: I, I know I can’t get that together...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...it, why they decide to do it, in what context and before whom, what senses are born from that experience. Gunnels: I want to give readers a sense of your...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...medium through which my art finds expression and the subject matter that it articulates. I know that the quilt form usually is associated with feelings of warmth, comfort, serenity and...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...first name used, given that surnames are usually inscribed on Mount Zion–FUBS headstones? Possibly because the child was buried within an extant family plot that was obscured through the relocation...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...the poorest families in Bolivar. Pushing against the monocrop culture that had rendered many Black sharecroppers jobless, the NBCFC grew crops that would meet nutritional needs: protein-rich nuts, peas and...