Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...nothing to promote political and economic change. In July 2010 Menendez took the Senate floor to oppose an easing of travel restrictions, remarking that more opportunities for US citizens to...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...and "rivers" and tropes evocative of African American rural and migratory life. Such visions and figures and themes "float" from one song to another and can sometimes take shape as...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...detective stories and police procedurals, but detection and policing remain central to the narrative, both figuratively and structurally, thus replicating many of the discursive effects of discipline and control that...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...these positions. Most caregivers do not become activists. The merging of an ethic of care with democratic struggle provided a powerful argument that caring is central to the fight for...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...presence in El Paso, he "helped lay the foundation for Black voting rights in the South as the central plaintiff in two landmark US Supreme Court cases: Nixon v. Herndon...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...for an international organization representing indigenous peoples. She studied at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe and at Vermont College, where she completed an MFA in creative...
Local Color
...color writers might be seen as promoting a separatist view of region through their attention to difference and unique detail, but they might also be seen as arguing an early...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...scene is a handheld Super 8 shot of young people drinking and carousing on a cliff above the river while the popular African big-band standard "Skokiaan" plays. The camera doesn't...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...increasing rates of Latin American immigration to the Atlanta metropolitan area Part 3: Transnational migrant circuits between Atlanta and localities in Mexico and Central America Part 4: Situating Chamblee and Doraville as...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...is a central theme of Ellen Griffith Spears's excellent and important book, Baptized in PCBs: Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town, which follows the story of Anniston from...