The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
...the Republican National Convention were being paid below minimum wage. Regular employees of Cleanevent USA, the company contracted to clean the convention center in Tampa, were paid the minimum wage...
Hill Brothers Short Log Harvesting
Sea Changes in Personhood
...of an "originary American event" (180). It is in the company of another Caribbean poet and theorist, the Guyanese Wilson Harris, that Allewaert concludes Ariel's Ecology. Poe's Narrative exemplifies Harris's...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...base at Fort McClellan, one of two US military installations on which the city's economy depended. Highly publicized trials against the agro-chemical company Monsanto for PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl) pollution prompted...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
Blackbirds, Mississippi, photograph by Kathleen Robbins © 2007. See more at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery. Review The Mississippi Delta and Louisiana Bayou have long lured photographers enchanted by their wide expanses of flat...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
Review As I write this review of Robert Wuthnow's compelling account of Texas religious and cultural history, I am struck by two seemingly unrelated yet telling events that resonate...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
Photographing Andalusia After receiving permission from the Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation to visit and photograph, in April, 2007 I went to Milledgeville from my home in South Carolina. Andalusia is located...
Hill Brothers Long Log Harvesting
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Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...forms of sheet music and, later, recordings that could be played on the new talking machines Cover of race records catalogue from Victor talking machine company, 1929. As some white...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...industrial Louisiana in company patches on long-sleeved blue shirts: Diamond M, Gulfstream, Burlington Resources, W&T. I had seen Richard Misrach's ghostly photographs documenting images of my hometown: the salted cypress...