Sweep
...as he loosens the clamps to replace my ruptured heater hoses, have aged twenty years since I saw them last and want only to talk of high school and who...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...way—stuffed—with cherry flavoring and condensed milk. Trawling at dawn, route. Satellite imagery courtesy of Google Earth. We want trawling in Lake Boudreaux at sunrise. One shrimper was from the days...
Junction City newspaper
...Kansas, at least, does not want them, and, indeed, cannot support them. The conviction is growing everywhere, that if the movement continues, the north must use shot-guns in self defense."...
Georgia Postcard
...spring, a spreading rash, blush. III. Kin: Sparta, Georgia 106-year-old Great-Aunt Kate calls it "the dry grin," what white people give you when they want you to think you are...
St. Thomas Church Supper near Bardstown, Kentucky, August 7, 1940
...African American and white men are cooking together, and wanted to know more about what was happening in this integrated outdoor kitchen. Looking at the curated series, where the white...
The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
As part of our engagement with scholarship about the US South, we wanted to let our readers know about the recent call for papers from The Southern Quarterly. Please remember...
The Change
...hunt for meat when I wanted and find peace. I heard you remarried and went into automated farming and kept up with America. I watched all of you from the...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...and global resonances and complicated, never certain trajectories. But the future Theriot wants to foretell is self-fulfilling and contradictory: the accumulation of knowledge about wetland loss and the growth of...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...the ability to think, to ascertain available courses of action, and to then act in one's best interest. When that interest runs counter to that of one's captors—who here wanted...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...general insights into humanity. For instance, this Eliot epigram fits the current occupant of the White House and his cronies: "There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy...