A Mess of Poke
...page, "The decision to stop processing poke was primarily because of the difficulty of finding people interested in picking poke and bring it to our buying locations." Poke lacks a...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...Orleans provided warehouses to store the river’s goods, businessmen to buy and sell them, and captains to transport them. Powell gives vivid portraits of the different visions of empire that...
Sweep
...as he loosens the clamps to replace my ruptured heater hoses, have aged twenty years since I saw them last and want only to talk of high school and who...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
...Phillips' use of autobiography and family history, investigation of the natural world, and the legacy of white supremacy in Forsyth County. Part 2: Phillips discusses “Brass Knuckles,” ambivalences of place...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...places in the wider world; and challenge conventional ways of understanding the people, places, and cultures found in and across the South. This 2015–2016 series will examine the relationship between...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...resegregation of places of residence, work, leisure, education, and worship Workplace democracy, union organizing, and corporate flight Gendered segregation, e.g. in state legislatures or boardrooms Age-based segregation Memory and memorialization...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...and unequal schooling (37). Their protests made headlines across the state, but international events derailed the effort and plunged the borderlands into the deadliest decade in the state's history. In...
The Border South
Defining the Border Anyone who has lived for a time in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, or Maryland has heard their place of residence categorized as "not really the South." Sometimes, folks...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...of what was then called “college radio” to name the best early 1980s band from Athens, Georgia. Many folks will insist on the most famous band to emerge from this...
Glocal Lounge
...regions, offers critical scrutiny of any monolithic "South," interrogates historical developments and geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. Perhaps our blog can serve as a...