Brushes with War
...change with the decades. Our capacities for taking lives, and for saving them, seem to increase over time. But the combat artist seated with his sketchpad still looks very much...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...a simple three-part statement that argues for positive changes in the academic departments or programs that house these disciplines: An end to the actions that divide creative and critical/academic voices;...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...he declared, were separate species and nothing could change one into the other. Mulattoes were a "degenerate Hybrid race" (97). They might be more intelligent than pure Negroes but they...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...the COVID-19 pandemic is the philanthropic and public perception that the conditions for folks have changed enough that mutual aid is not necessary even as we continue to field a...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
.... . that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events . . . The Almighty...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
...link close? No birth or death dates. No names. I expose the film again. I pull it from the camera and wait. I separate the positive from the negative and...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...Lurethra Fluty’s farm, just below Buckner Gap, in background, Sams Gap, NC, no date. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. I-26 West approaching Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Photo courtesy...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...much of the state without intercity transportation, mirroring challenges in providing adequate public transportation to rural communities across the US South and beyond. In an update to Dan Carter's recent...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...an ordained Episcopal Church deacon, a community activist, and a former candidate for the West Virgina governorship. This excerpt from Fallam's Secret is used with the permission of the author...