Residues of Border Control
...found and photographed are often private and reveal the identity of border crossers. Some have actual identifying potential, as they contain the border crossers’ DNA. The portrayal of everyday objects...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...feathery anger might frighten him away. Self accusation makes sense in terms of the film's psychological economy, but it also operates in a mythical or cosmic register. According to Chakrabarty,...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...John F. "Human Intelligence versus Divine Truth: The Intellectual in Flannery O'Connor's Works." The English Journal 55.9 (Dec. 1966): 1144. In another letter, O'Connor praises one of Hester's own fictional...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...blunt, sometimes opaque, but deeply moving, reinterpretation of the experience of the war in Virginia. The highlight for any visitor is likely to be the first-person, three-dimensional visual simulation of...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...with the state government, allowed elites to pursue a path for growth that eschewed heavy industry. As national and global priorities began to trumpet high technology in the 1970s and...
Climate Change & Coral Reefs: Global Challenges from a Caribbean Perspective
...and Caribbean coral reefs. His research and expertise has brought him to testify before Congress five times on environmental concerns, most recently on the effects of global warming on coral reefs....
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Americans from jury pools.1Powell v. Alabama, 287 US 45 (1932); Norris v. Alabama, 294 US 587 (1935). Carol M. Highsmith, Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center, Scottsboro, Alabama, 2010. Courtesy...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...of the oral history program at the University of North Texas. A historian of the American civil rights movement, he directed the National Park Service's Tuskegee Airmen Oral History Project...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...a time of hope for an end to segregation and discrimination. It also coincided with rising national popularity of blues and country music, much of which originated in the rural...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...very substance and availability of archival material, and how this material shapes the cinematic writing of history. Focusing so intently on archival fragments, actual and simulated, Wenders fetishizes traces that...