Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...the buzzards from cheatin the wurms." "Oh," says the gentleman, "you have been helping to bury a woman." "That’s hit, by golly!," replies Sut. "Now why the devil can't I...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...young migrant worker had raped a white woman, the mob doused him in oil and burned him alive. Anti-American riots broke out across Mexico following news of the lynching and...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...photographs of his wife, family members, and his new neighborhood of Virginia Highlands. In time, however, Simone shifted his focus to rarely photographed areas of urban Atlanta. A Woman Has...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...social terrain shaped one woman's life. Mary Ann Helam was born in Kentucky. Like thousands of other slaves during the 1830s, she was forced into the Second Middle Passage that...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...Rock and roll songs often sing about leaving town, but Cooley has made a living writing coming-back-home songs like “One of These Days” and “Marry Me.” Here, a Pulaski woman...
Lafayette, Louisiana images
Lafayette, Louisiana: House on West Vermilion Street This house is owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lafayette. Cajun Bail Bonds Lafayette is often called the capital of Acadiana, that...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...is an indigenous Haitian religion, closely related to West African Vodun, that draws from multiple West African religions, in addition to Roman Catholicism, European mysticism, and freemasonery. Most practitioners of...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...of Greece," in Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West, ed. Beert C. Verstraete and Vernon Provencal (Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press,...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...woman showed me how many other boundaries had been placed around me—boundaries that were there to serve racist ideology, sexist ideology—boundaries that stood between me and other women. Denied a...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...county had drawn national attention when a mob lynched James and Harrison Gillespie (of the same Gillespie family), aged eleven and thirteen, for allegedly murdering a young white woman as...