Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...has brought a reduction or loss of numerous species, and that fire—both natural and "managed"—is essential. Some features of the book are irritating. The text breaks on page forty-three for...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...to the project, one that, fortuitously, my academic role could support. To isolate the travel element, I offer a brief chronology that, since the traveling continues, can only be partial,...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of the enslaved. Another screen drops to ground level, cutting back and forth between close ups of the lush green grass and sharp stalks of sugarcane leaves piercing from the dirt...
Sweep
The two Garnett brothers who run the Shell station here, who are working separately just now, one hunched under the rear axle of Skippy Smith's Peterbilt tractor, the other humming...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...across the Rio Grande River, Los Ebanos, Texas, March 3, 2014. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/resource/highsm.27608/. What if we...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...
Remnants of Flannery
...largely set in-and-around New Orleans; Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and the 2012 film of the same name, which reimagines slaves as food for vampires and the...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Americans from jury pools.1Powell v. Alabama, 287 US 45 (1932); Norris v. Alabama, 294 US 587 (1935). Carol M. Highsmith, Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center, Scottsboro, Alabama, 2010. Courtesy...
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama Jake Adam York reads the poem "Gone With the Wind." Jake Adam York reads the poem "At Cornwall Furnace." Jake Adam York reads the...
USS Carter Hall, off the coast of North Carolina, 2005