Stones and Shadows
1. Visiting the Stone The air in the car is thick and still. My father makes a right turn through the cemetery gates, giving me a significant look. I don't...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...against "the members of the lawless band" to, according to the county attorney, "erase the blot on the fair name" of the county.4Wright, Racial Violence in Kentucky, 118, 165; NYT,...
Darkly
...in the air where they held a gun on Willie Edwards and told him he could jump. How you'd ask me — Why? so simple it won't tell a thing...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers." Southern Spaces, December 21, 2007, https://southernspaces.org/2007/geographies-hope-and-despair-atlantas-african-american-latino-and-white-day-laborers. Frederickson, Mary E. "Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South." Southern Spaces, December...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...in solidarity for fair wages, no Fox News coverage. Meanwhile, the law has winked at a few incidents of violence against the strikers. But there is also a contradiction from...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Land," http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/272. Accessed October 7, 2011. Her photographs of abandoned commissaries, churches and houses sit alongside scenes of mostly barren fields in winter or early spring. Clay’s work does not...
"Aint that Something?"
...and subjects. Some of Appalachian literature's most acclaimed and best-known authors include James Still, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Wendell Berry, Jim Wayne Miller, Denise Giardina, and Lee Smith. Younger Appalachian authors...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...twenty-first. Yellow fever, malaria, hookworm, pellagra, and industrial accidents shape life in the developing world. In Atlanta, known as the "public health capital of the world," recent headlines compared the...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...alternating pieces of two different brown prints, and the fabric on the back is a lively printed stripe. The lines of quilting stitches simply outline the pieced "logs." Many of...
Love and Death at Second-Line
Love and Death at Second-Line NEW ORLEANS — Sixty people stood at the corner of Ursulines and N. Robertson, in front of the ramshackle Tremé watering hole, Joe's Cozy Corner...