I-26, Corridor of Change
...my motivation. Why was I here? What right did I have to assume that I could represent in my documentary work a culture I knew little about? I was sometimes...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...political imagination. His insistence on detailing social injustices never precluded him from illuminating the South's importance as the incubator of his radical political vision. Scott-Heron's indebtedness to the South and...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...is set and was filmed: language, imagery, music, and casting. It was shot on location in two Missouri Ozark counties, Taney and Christian. Taney County sits right on the Missouri-Arkansas...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Yet it is a mistake to treat southern gospel as wholly synonymous with white gospel. Nor is its cultural function exclusively or even primarily of scholarly interest for what it...
Nigger Street 1937
...late-staying patrons early in country churches on Sunday mornings and in church the red of the edge of white pages in a black bound bible coming together ...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
...cradled in branches deep beneath the bridge. Its ribs filter the Coosa's brown. Its arms raise the crops. And every night it whispers the town in some new forgotten tongue....
From A Field Guide to Etowah County
...emerge, the Swallowtails' gunmetal iridescence, obsidian-with-stars wings turning like pages in hands of wind. Thrashers tear in the leaves for earthworms, salamanders, some morsel, their stipple of sunlight-in-leaves blending then...
The Change
...spoke a word to you about it, I knew and I kept it to myself to this day and time and I never let on until I left on...
Work
...Lejeune and college. After two babies. Worked to the tune of minimum wage, ten-hour days, and culled furniture. Once I went into the deafening grind and buzz of the machine...
Substantiation
...emerges, a child watching from a sleeping porch catches a rustle in the bushes and soon everyone is on the hunt while in the courtroom someone is wondering about this...