Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...in the Americas: Amazonia, the “Great Dismal Swamp” at the borders of Virginia and North Carolina, and Appalachia. For comparatists with one foot in the United States and/or the southern...
Mapping Souths
...closely sealed off from the North geographically, nor a moral unity. It is not a country at all, but a battle slogan.2Karl Marx, "The Civil War in the United States,"...
Keep Your Eye upon the Scale
...the 1974 Wales Miners' Strike, part of a series of national mining strikes across the United Kingdom. When Gaventa returned to the United States, sociologist Helen Lewis invited him to show the...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...havoc on farmers and ranchers across a broad swath of the United States. On Monday the United States Department of Agriculture announced that it would buy $170 million of pork,...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...the zone of the American tropics, in which Monique Allewaert includes the United States and the Caribbean. Each of the chapters focuses on expressions of a "minoritarian colonial conception of...
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...temperatures and the worst drought in the continental United States since the 1950s. NOAA's report and a study they completed with a similar agency in the United Kingdom suggest that...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...at Harvard Graduate School of Education, marked the anniversary by questioning the notion that public schools in the United States are really desegregated, asking "Is this the desegregation Meredith fought...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...capital and federal dollars moved southward, people followed. In the 1960s, the South reversed a historic trend: more people moved into this section of the United States than out of...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...rural counties across the United States, Madison experienced rapid change. In the 1960s, a significant number of newcomers entered Madison County from outside the Southern Appalachian region. The earliest of...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...lived in the United States for most of his life, mainly in Chicago and Charleston, South Carolina, where he taught history for thirty-four years at the College of Charleston. His...