The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...spaces in the D.C. area, and yet was reelected to Congress for his conservative Republican values. Eventually, he was caught again and run out of office. We thought about Aaron...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...ecology, a denial of mobility, a constraint on access to space. "The criminalization of urban space," as scholar Yohuru Williams explains, increasingly has been recognized as a question of environmental...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...white, rustic life and experience has "tended to preserve it."38Pamela Fox, Natural Acts: Gender, Race, and Rusticity in Country Music (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009), 7. For more...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...to its study sites, has conducted world-renowned research on salt-marsh ecology and other aspects of natural communities on and around the island. Reynolds' widow, Annemarie Reynolds, sold much of the...
Dirty Little Story
...litter. I take away all the trash I can carry in the bag I've brought for my own picnic waste. But to clean this site would require heavy equipment and...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...frames, and otherwise houses various non-Native characters (including an IRA money runner who goes by the alias James Joyce), institutions (such as the Oklahoma Historical Society), and other entities (the...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...life, Cash teamed with producer Rick Rubin for a series of critically-acclaimed studio albums. Along with new compositions and classic country interpretations, Rubin encouraged Cash to take up songs by...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...Museum serves as one of Atlanta's premiere institutions of African American and African diasporic art. The July 12, 2015, event was titled #homeplace, an homage to bell hooks's essay about black women's homes as sites of resistance and to Hammonds...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...Physical And Political Geography (New York: J.H. Colton And Co., 1855). Courtesy of the David Rumsey Map Collection. Through their MAP IT series lectures, scholars generated discussion about maps, the...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...and imagined spaces and places make connections and comparisons between southern regions and/or locales and sites in the wider world use textual, visual media, archival, and ethnographic materials—including artistic expressions—to...