Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...At the end of this scene little girls dance with loving women wearing old-fashioned white slips—as if the movie wants to promise us a Land of Cockaigne where little girls...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
Introduction At present, the people of Appalachia continue to endure the contraction and retreat of extractive industry with little more than big-box retail for employment. They work for local hospitals...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...information literacy, social media, art history, and the politics of information. In addition to geospatial literacy, Battista is interested in data literacy, digital humanities, critical library pedagogy, social media, and human attention....
Sonic Zora in Florida
...of these big, colorful and complex songs of the self, Black folks make their own time while the wheels keep turning round and round. About the Author Daphne A. Brooks is...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...modest political and economic independence. Serving as a key organizing ground for the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, Mound Bayou attracted interest from prominent civil rights leaders like Medgar Evers....
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...bars and corner joints that catered to the around-the-clock work routine of the docks. This working man's seaport atmosphere originated during the city's founding in the Age of Sail and...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...– In this view you can see abrupt transitions between a salt marsh, maritime forest, and artificial freshwater pond, which is in the foreground. 1:11 – A time-lapse of a...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...various states of collapse around the vicinity of the house: a stable, the Hill house, the water tower, the milking shed, and the big barn. All of these elements figured...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...to Congressman John Lewis. Mace is not the first to suggest this, but the point bears repeating. In Remembrance of Emmett Till is structured around newspaper and magazine coverage of...