Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...of African Americans in the US South. Much like West Africans who were grappling with the inheritances of colonialism, African Americans lived daily with the reality of being both African...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
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Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...the cross-Atlantic musical exchange, this documentary includes reflections of the original documentarians about the relationships of geography, culture (especially music), and economy to the lives and livelihoods of Welsh and...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...the Delta. . . where I am the fifth generation to live here,” Clay writes, “allowed me to view the endemic and ordinary landscape as a disappearing way of life.”3"Delta...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...not know how Lonesome, Desperate, or Resigned some early oystermen and women were, we glimpsed stories of families and lives memorialized by names. From the restoration of narratives came a...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...asserted Vardaman's fellow senator John Sharp Williams, Choctaws lived "an honest and simple life" (51). Later, Theodore Bilbo would also take up the Choctaw cause in Washington. The lobbying bore...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...here are at least twice that of the rest of the country. The people are mainly a rural, white population whose families have lived in Appalachia for generations, dating back...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...Willie Seaberry holding a copy of the November 2004 Esquire magazine Japan, which featured an article about him and the lounge, November 2004. Since 1963 Willie Seaberry has lived in...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...put the family’s house and land up as part of his bail bond. Ree’s determination to find her father, dead or alive, enrages some of the meanest members of the...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...followed his leads from Darkness on the Edge of Town and Nebraska—than the Allman Brothers, and more like Elvis Costello—the upbeat Attractions phase—than the Marshall Trucker Band. Live in theaters...