Congregation
...table and chairs etched with rust, the dresser laced with mold. Four years gone she's still rebuilding the shed out back and sorting through boxes in the kitchen- a lifetime...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...Shatter zones, he writes, “are found wherever the expansion of states, empires, slave-trading, and wars, as well as natural disasters, have driven large numbers of people to seek refuge in...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Roll Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World, 2002), and These Hands I Know: Writing About the African American...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...Gulf South borderlands in particular found evidence for this portrayal in the writings of early French, Spanish, and Anglo observers who emphasized the "mental incapacity" and "backwardness" of the region's...
Tracing the Arctic Regions: Mapping 19th Century Photographs of Greenland
...representation of extreme landscapes—such as alpine and arctic regions—and the political forces that shape and contest them over time. To date, his published writing explores these themes within the history...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...here too, the repeating processes of geological time that leave waves in the rock and hollow out the caves and the layered scratches and writings left behind by people marking...
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
No Place
...Rebellion: Essays 1980-1991 (1991), S/HE (1995), Walking Back Up Depot Street (1999), and The Dirt She Ate: Selected and New Poems (2003). Pratt's lecture "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...One of the most significant reports on African forms in Lowcountry religious cultures is the Georgia Writers' Project, Savannah Unit, Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes, (Spartanburg,...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...others writing on the subject do. And while Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans would have benefitted from more information framed by artists in their own words,...