Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Editors
...for social and economic justice in Appalachia and the US South for more than 45 years. Smith served as the Research and Education Director of the Southeast Women’s Employment Coalition,...
Substantiation
...gin fan that weighed him down, looked like he'd lain there weeks, not a kid at all. He was a stranger just out of Money, recalled by a store clerk,...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
..."nostalgic gloss" for the laboratory and the weapons it produces (7). The Oak Ridge National Laboratory, just west of Knoxville, Tennessee, was one of three key sites, along with Los...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...all future actions" (7). Guzmán frames his subject as important only as precursor to the real movement decades later rather than as part of a deeper social justice struggle. He...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...Justice because "the integrity of the court's justices and the proceedings cannot be influenced by money or even have the appearance of being sold to the highest bidder." For more on...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...Interviews James Franco," The Los Angeles Review of Books, May 15, 2013, http://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/james-franco-on-his-adaptation-of-faulkners-as-i-lay-dying. And this town isn't just Tinseltown. Indeed, Franco has been cutting a swath across the country from...
How I Shed My Skin
...and had never imagined the stark realities that delineated his racial experience. Just when I, as a reader, suspect Grimsley is overstating his youthful naiveté—characterizations of "the Southerner" clanging, only...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...from Mrs. Johns's perspective, though in the form of a third-person narration that suppresses her voice just as it suppresses Native voices. In this narrative, one black man has allied...