Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010
...a sit-in on Freedom Plaza. While mountaintop removal is often considered an Appalachian problem, this protest and its depiction of the federal Army Corps of Engineers points to the complexity...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...the activists caught the attention of Carson, who began investigating the impact of DDT across the country. That research culminated in the publication of Silent Spring in 1962, and Spears...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...members of her community, many who sought their freedom by way of fugitive paths, to love themselves, fully and deeply, precisely because of the white world outside the safety of...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...from many of the states in which slavery was legal before the 1860s, but overwhelmingly from the plantation country of the Lower South, from South Carolina to Louisiana. She draws...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...reflects on this case in Anne Braden and restates her argument that: "no white woman reared in the South—or perhaps anywhere in this racist country—can find freedom as a woman...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...bring Ree to the freezing shallows where her father’s body has been hidden. At their direction, she pulls his corpse partly out of the water and, weeping, holds his rigid...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...race, no matter their sex, no matter their sexual orientation, should have that same freedom to marry… I support the freedom to marry for all. That's what Loving, and loving...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...of the country that, while intriguing and important, originally had little direct connection to the Mississippi River. While the authors pay attention to the concept of natural disaster and social,...