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...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...did you start playing guitar? Jim Bunkley: I came up, my brothers had one, and me and my sister used to get up on a chair because we couldn’t hold...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
...device, you’ll need to click the upward-facing arrow next to “10 Items” to reveal hotspots. Introduction In many ways, artists are first responders—to repurpose a term often used in public...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...to address the complexities of coastal restoration illustrated by the Mardi Gras Pass example. Impact of Salt Water Intrusion, March 25, 2011. Image created by Wikimedia user Hui Tian as part...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
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...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...structures around them had not changed; because reform laws would get repealed by a shift in the larger forces of power; because they themselves would forget what they knew, under...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...a menu that invites users to choose a state within the thirteen-state ARC-designated region. The site directs users to select—to frame by state—one set of images of Appalachia over other...
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...
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...