Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...if publication is refused. This exhibition of unashamed aggression on the part of the "respectable" must give us pause. The threat of open violence, accompanied by the use of lower...
The Black Belt
...photographs from 1914 US Geological Survey “Cretaceous Deposits of the Eastern Gulf Region,” Selma, Alabama, ca. 1914. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in the...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...have found a dearth of successful public black protests in the South, not because they have not looked for them, but because the repercussions for African Americans who acted openly...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...She made me promise to photograph her house before I left for the evening. After she left I went to her house. All that remained was the concrete slab and...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...he nonetheless shows consistent themes in Percy's life and poetry, as with "An Epistle from Corinth," expertly used to evidence the writer's struggles with particular strands of Christian doctrine, his...
Sea Changes in Personhood
..."Belles Demoiselles Plantation," Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove, Aimé Césaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, or Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild. I have already used it successfully...
New house, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1996
Premier Elkhorn Coal Company refuse fill, Pike County, Kentucky, 2005
Remnants of a house by the tracks, Penland, North Carolina, 2007
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...by the federal government. These are important not only to provide background and context, but also because the often-contested terrain of scientific knowledge and expertise is so central to understanding...