Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...like the music, was the air that his ears breathed. This being said, it would be wrong not to acknowledge that this southern literary emergence in 1929—so surprising to the...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...airplane and boat suggest parallel devotional differences between Miami's mostly lower-class "Little Haiti" and various middle- and upper-class suburban enclaves. Haitians in middle- and upper-class neighborhoods outside of Miami (such...
Timber, Equity, and Ethics
...of The Least of These: Fair Taxes and the Moral Duty of Christians (2003) and "An Argument for Tax Reform Based on Judeo-Christian Ethics" published in the Alabama Law Review, Fall...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice. You can pair this episode with Wilkerson's Southern Spaces essay "You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachia." Recently Published...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...battle of Blair Mountain with a machine gun" in 1921 to bring the union into southern West Virginia. They were up against the combined forces of coal company guards, the...
Geography
Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text. About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...
Theories of Time and Space
Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...History (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2014), 310. About the Author Lynnell Thomas is associate professor and chair of American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...That said, throughout the pandemic, Brazilians have had to contend with Jair Bolsanaro, the "Trump of the Tropics," a man filled with authoritarian vitriol and disregard for vaccine science. Many...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...—David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (When I Put My Hands on Your Body), 1990 “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity,...