Residues of Border Control
...Grande Valley, near Brownsville (USA) and Matamoros (Mexico). The photographs, part of her Border Project, depict no immigrants, only the dried out clothes that they left behind after making it...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...exclusively on a fluid population of bound workers. "Indeed," as Pargas notes, "no studies have attempted to compare the experiences of interstate, local, and urban slave migrants" (4). Pargas draws...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...sacred. You put the tobacco in the flowing water. Whatever the prayer is that you make, the flowing river carries it." Recently, we've held conversations about how these long-separated people...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...one widely publicized instance, a National Football League Most Valuable Player invoked vaccine misinformation to justify his decision to remain unvaccinated.10Ken Belson and Emily Anthes, "Scientists Fight a New Source...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...in Hollywood, Maryland, Annapolis, Maryland, Historic Jamestowne, Virginia, Yorktown, Virginia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pensacola, Florida, Fernandina Beach, Florida, St. Augustine, Florida. Three locations have installed markers: Historic Jamestowne, Virginia; Yorktown, Virginia;...
Writing Appalachia
Excerpt Looking over the end of the Turtle Creek Valley where it flows into the Monongahela River next to Edgar Thomson Steelworks, Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, March 11, 2016. Photograph by...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...Buus, Survival Media Agency. Courtesy of Flickr user 350.org. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. The idea of a Green New Deal has actually been discussed since 2008 in various...
Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...
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
...https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act/. Rally to End Gerrymandering, Washington, DC, March 25, 2019. Photograph by Flickr user League of Women Voters. Copyright © 2019. The case, Merrill v. Milligan, will adversely shape voting...