Residues of Border Control
...Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Mississippi figure among the top ten states. Immigrants from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America and South America constitute approximately 53% of the...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...many new insights. In large part, the book's shortcomings stem from an overreliance on rigid and unyielding categories: in allowing those categories to do much of his critical work, Pargas...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...time being the bounty of lessons suggests that COVID-19 is America's Teachable Moment Pandemic.4Alfred W. Crosby, America's Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918, Second Edition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003),...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
There is no place where I can go, or where you can go, and think about, or summon the presence of, or recollect the absences of the ones that made...
Writing Appalachia
...supports the Confederacy. References to incest abound when Kenneth is around. A clearing in the mountains, Sapphire, North Carolina, ca. 1902. Photograph by William Henry Jackson. Courtesy of the Library...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...the participants share the same world view, and they can have different religious or philosophical convictions. Their concern for the environment can proceed from different sources and they can follow...
Bodies and Souls
...was filmed entirely on-location in Canton. It wasn't until Bodies and Souls that I returned to Mississippi with a camera. Jonestown residents and patients of the clinic, Bodies and Souls, 2005....
Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs
...(1993). He has served as mentor for a number of leading garden designers throughout the US South, including Sanchez. In the summer, Steve filmed a session with Gainey during which...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...In 2019 the Court held in a case concerning North Carolina's Congressional reapportionment that federal courts cannot become involved in partisan gerrymandering since it would involve the courts in allocating...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...obtain the funding necessary to provide care. Following the global outbreak of COVID in 2020 many governments created temporary measures to extend aid to vulnerable populations. In the US, these...