Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...critical attention to occupational safety and health. Originally and essentially, however, the black lung movement was a struggle over the recognition and, more implicitly, causation of an occupational disease. What...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...labels of leisurely consumption. Racial divides further hide this fragmented waterway, and the environmental merges with the Sunshine City's flickering, all-too-easily-denied Jim Crow past. Today only a handful of locals...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Killebrew. Courtesy of the Charles S. Killebrew Photographic Collection, NC Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Princeville was socially as well as environmentally vulnerable,...
Editors
...Spaces, and Southern Cultures. She is currently working on The Lyncher in the Family, a book about her grandfather, a Mississippi sheriff, and white Americans' inability to reckon with the history...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...also used up all of our film. It was a spectacular performance, but unfortunately could not be edited into the time constraints of a sixty-minute film. The next section underscores...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...told, this early spectacle lynching was staged as a warning to Native and enslaved Black people that any challenge to white rule would be swiftly and violently put down. We...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...that accompany filmmaking. Independent documentaries typically have at least a fifty-to-one shooting ratio—that is, for a finished work that is one hour long, acquired footage is usually more than fifty...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...proudly and safely into the straight world outside the confines of bars and clubs once designated specifically as "gay spaces." Fifty years ago, none of those things was true. Queer...
Religion and the US South
...of Christ, a theologically conservative and morally strict group that grew out of the Presbyterians, are often one of the numerically largest and culturally powerful religious groups from middle Tennessee,...
Bodies and Souls
...I studied his films Hospital, Welfare, and Public Housing, each of which consists entirely of observational footage without narration or interviews. While certainly not unmediated, I was drawn to this...