Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937
...of Congress's Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Collection, I thought that these images of Floridian workers packing and canning grapefruits and oranges were dramatically different than other,...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...of street life. As for hip-hop, most of the nationally famous artists in that genre have emerged from some sort of local scene that, while aesthetically different from DC's go-go,...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...or sit. Seen from the outside, the lounge is a shanty. Inside, the space opens into an array of colors and sounds. Three mounted TV sets display different programs. Strings...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Jim (and Jane) Crow. Mississippi Praying contends that white congregations in Mississippi neither escaped the fray nor were they indifferent. White evangelical faith helped make and maintain the social order...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...author's fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Readers inhabit the thoughts of fifteen different narrators spread over fifty-nine chapters, experiencing how each family member (including the dead mother herself) views and is viewed...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...people and places that foregrounds photography’s jumbling of time. In very different ways, they hold the place or person—the subject—steady so time can float free. William Christenberry, Greensboro, Hale County,...
Belle plaine newspaper
...negros [sic] and pounded up a few more. . . . The man may come clear but he will find it a little different than in Alabama and may wait...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...that I cannot understand — rise in its indifferent passion. Published in Salvation Blues: One Hundred Poems, 1985-2005 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 8-9. Published: 22 January 2009 © 2009...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...was unsullied by outside influences." The idea of isolation was key. Folklorists defined "the folk" as people who lived in a different world from the scholars who studied them, separated...
The State House Aflame 1833
...different. It's twelve noon, and the assembly's just adjourned; the State House is aflame, and water won't reach the heights a slave can. Sam's a bondsman. The roof, the roof,...