Sea Changes in Personhood
...of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. —The Tempest Wifredo Lam's The Jungle, gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 1943. Photograph by...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...this exchange. As for examining the material world and creating change, will talking about hybridity affect any aspect of the worlds we live in? If so, let us identify this...
The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow
...of the mountains, which accompanied coal mining and devoured the ecological base of the forest.4See Ronald L. Lewis, Transforming the Appalachian Countryside: Railroads, Deforestation, and Social Change in West Virginia,...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...The total number of violent incidents identified in the sample undoubtedly represents only a fraction of those which actually transpired.16For an analysis of racist violence in Kansas, see Brent MacDonald...
The Black Belt
...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...earlier memorial practices at Moore’s Ford see Mark Auslander, "'Return to Sender:' Confronting Lynching and Our Haunted Landscapes.“ Southern Changes, Vol. 24, No. 1-2, 2002, pp. 4-7. I have been...
Residues of Border Control
...clothes and personal objects and the repeated transit through the “safest” pathways. Immigrants who cross the river must change into dry clothes once they arrive on the northern side, to...
Paul's Crazy Quilt [ca 1875 and ca 1915]
...six-pointed star pieced by hand from small fabric diamonds, a pattern that certainly predates the Civil War. However, the dyes that produced the red-brown and blue-green pieces in Rosa's pieced...
Sapelo Island Flyover: Video Transcript and Glossary
...tide reveals complex dendritic drainage patterns in tidal creeks, with a road, telephone wires, and power lines as human influences on these environments. 1:53 – This is Cabretta Beach, with...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
When the phone rings way too late for good news, just another farmer wanting me to lose half a night's sleep and drive some backcountry wash-out for miles, fix what...