California Creek, North Carolina
...effort to finish before deadline which would mean bonuses for the contractor, California Creek, NC, 2000. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Inspector measuring depth of asphalt on I-26 shoulder, California...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 and the forthcoming Rebel, Rebel: Why We Love Outsiders and the Effects of This Romance on Postwar American Culture and Politics. Her...
New Shades o'Death Creek
...look at it just to get an idea of what they've done." "Oh, you'll see. If the Devil built a fortress in the middle of your daddy's land, that's what...
Whiskey and Geography
...maybe economic help, they may have seen the benefit of paying them and behaved differently when the collectors came calling. But no government services were forthcoming on the frontier. As...
Local Color
...in any case public taste in the early twentieth century increasingly turned toward realistic and historical fiction that treated "larger," and thus by inference more masculine themes. Despite the discomfort...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...to create not only a more physically comfortable life, but also a just and equitable society. I am fortunate to have grown into adulthood in the midst of the twentieth...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...perform at a Gaither Homecoming Friends concert, Fort Worth, Texas, April 4, 2009. The other main theme Harrison examines is how southern gospel, from its cultural origins during Reconstruction to...
When the Border Crossed Me
...to the Pacific Coast in California. The website and book featured here are my effort to forge better understanding. And the project is also my tribute to Eusebio, Librado, Faustino,...