Residues of Border Control
...need to be unearthed from layers of mud and dirt. This layering and the different stages of shredding and decomposition of the clothing suggest chronologies. Susan Harbage Page, Clothing left behind...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...have become permanent inmates of a carceral landscape: mute and nearly mummified human sacrifices to a commodity-producing global machinery. Damian Alan Pargas does not quibble with the argument that slaveholding...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...west of Covington, near Turner Lake, which persisted into the early twentieth century, when the Indigenous people were finally forced off the land. (As they remembered, there were also "gypsies"...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) branch chief who served in the agency's COVID-19 response from late March through June 2020, the profusion of "lessons learned" reflects the magnitude...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...the Unitarian Universalist Association 3 (January/February 1989): 4. Plaza de la Constitution, St. Augustine, Florida, October 6, 2013. Participants placing carnations representing the 55 nations of Africa in a basket...
Writing Appalachia
...the 1930s. Musician Laney Sullivan of the band Høly River looks up at some of the last remaining trees left uncut along the Mountain Valley Pipeline route in Elliston, Virginia,...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...aims in terms of "eco-socialism," others will prefer thinking in terms of a "citizen revolution."14For an eloquent defence of the eco-socialist vision, see Paul Magnette, La vie large (Paris: La...
Bodies and Souls
...to Kill one year later. The mayoral race ended in threats of a riot. One year later, a race riot was the climactic scene in A Time to Kill, which...
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...application for a political appointment as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in 1985, he wrote, "In college, I developed a deep interest in constitutional law, motivated in large part by disagreement...