The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...friends that lived down at the end of the street. I first got the word from him that they were moving. I knew that Jeff, the dad, had been out...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...I set out to see the exhibit in New York I knew it would be ugly. I did not know it would also be chillingly, lyrically beautiful. And this beauty,...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...a fully-fledged movement since we started in 2004. News of our endeavor spread quickly as we hammered, stapled, and stretched chicken wire on our new coop, most of which we...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
Presentation Part 2: Gwin explores temporal and spatial dimensions of mourning, posing questions of how to mourn and celebrate Evers Part 3: Gwin situates aesthetic and ethical responses from Baldwin,...
A City Divided
...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998). Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...entitled Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). McCandless has cleared that same bar with apparent ease. We can only hope that...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
..."sovereign vision," a view of the movement made up from an expanded and enriched collection of photographic expression.3Walker Percy, "The Loss of the Creature," in Message in a Bottle (New York:...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...Musical Journey (New York: Amistad, 2003), 161. Wenders wanted the old footage to be "the backbone of the second half of [the] film," revealing more than any contemporary interview.2Ibid. Steve...
Writing Appalachia
...example, to examine the concept of the American frontier in the writings of New Yorker James Fenimore Cooper as well as in the southern account of Anne Newport Royall, or...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...