When the Border Crossed Me
...they earned pretty good money, too. They literally ran to the fields that day to get started filling the pints as I carried them empty flats and returned with filled...
Mapping Souths
..."nature" being "gone for good." (But it is almost impossible to conquer nature.) Mapping the South is always a situated venture and always implicitly narrative: a way of mobilizing space...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...Obama's election as a sign that the GOP, much to its own detriment, has ceased to be a national party. Good evidence for such is the loss of Republican members...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...Natural Gas Tanks, Good Hope Street, Norco, Louisiana, 1998. Photograph by Richard Misrach. Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Marc Selwyn. © Richard Misrach. As...
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...process and that some fire is good, while some is not? And some fire was bad. The authors extoll the wisdom of those who burned to control pests or clear...
The Place of Appalachia
...(insider "good," outsider "bad") too often have tended to substitute for deeper social analysis and political critique.2Helen Matthews Lewis, Linda Johnson, and Donald Askins, eds., Colonialism in Modern America: The...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...had no way to make a good, archival quality print in color. On a trip to Chicago in the early 1970s, Eggleston discovered the process while reading a photography lab...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a motley brotherhood of Campbellites on good-deed missions in the southern outback, remembered those occasions and other forays with Campbell as "some of my best days on the road." "Will...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...priest or a pastor, because God blessed them with every good catch and there's no place of worship like the hull of a boat. We drove past the dock where...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
Presentation Part 1: Tom Rankin introduces the life and work of Paul Kwilecki and his relationship to Decatur County, Georgia. Part 2: Rankin discusses the evolution of Kwilecki's photographic style...