Searcy County Livestock Auction
...county's landscape and political economy. I have continued to return almost every year as I work on my dissertation about Mexican guest workers who plant trees for reforestation companies owned...
When the Border Crossed Me
...agriculture. The borderlands overtook me personally and professionally. I cannot escape their meaning—not just down at the southern line below the United States, but the little borders everywhere in our...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...rap record labels, Cash Money and No Limit, and their artist mega-stars––Mystikal, Juvenile, Lil Wayne, and others––would ultimately develop their own unique sounds born out of this fascinating soundscape and...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...following a letter dated 6 Aug. 1960. Nancy Marshall, The stable, Andalusia, Spring 2007. This rural landscape figures prominently in O'Connor's fiction. "The Enduring Chill," a short story...