Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...simply, these poets represent race as emplaced experience, as a phenomenon "ineluctably place-bound."6Edward S. Casey, "How to Get From Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Phenomenological Prolegomena,"...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...up pretty rough and a lot of them does the best they can do and they take it as if you take the worst you can find to make a...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...of its place and its people—those who have worked there as partners or staff, those who have shopped there, and those who have given their time to support the store....
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Watson and Carrie Matthews, 23-38 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005). As new immigrants seek a “usable past” within which to place and make sense of their experiences, they...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...men Gilmer consulted about the number of companies and their placement. James Gamble to George R. Gilmer, March 16, 1838, "Cherokee Removal Letters," www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gachatto/corr/cherokee.htm; Thomas G. MacFarland to George R....
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...transcend place, S-Town traps McLemore hopelessly and eternally in the place that he calls Shittown, Alabama. Although Reed ends the podcast with the story of McLemore's birth, S-Town buries him...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...older conception of place than the "anti-essentialist construction" of place defined and claimed by cultural geographers.6Doreen Massey, Space, Place and Gender (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994), 121. But Massey's take on...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...place evokes and that help constitute it.14Tim Cresswell, Place: A Short Introduction (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004), 169. More than just feelings or emotions, such sense of place encompasses perceptions, assumptions, and...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...know what WVU is like now, but at that time we had a large number of out of state students, partly because our tuition was so cheap, and the whole...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...weeks earlier, his planned itinerary was a journalistic roundup, with stops scheduled in the places that had made headlines: Dayton, Tennessee (a 1920s news site Daniels ultimately skipped); Scottsboro, Alabama;...