The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...of the case and how local groups and United States Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-Illinois) have rallied around Gabino Sanchez, a 27-year-old construction and landscape worker from rural Ridgeland, South Carolina....
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...his farm in Kentucky. Earlier this year, Berry was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, in recognition of his lifelong dedication to literary explorations of community and conservation. Contributing the...
Boarded-up homes in abandoned mining town, Twin Branch, West Virginia, 1938
...homes in abandoned mining town. Twin Branch, West Virginia. Once very nice, owned by Ford. About four years ago when an attempt to organize it was made, Ford closed it...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
...in the New Orleans hip-hop and bounce scene from the late 1980s through Hurricane Katrina. The NOLA Hip-hop Archive is the culmination of over two years of oral history interview...
Words Like a Fire: MARBL's Kennedy and Sons Collection
...exhibits his work in museum spaces, Kennedy utilizes the space in both creative and political ways. For example, viewing the gallery exhibition of Kennedy's The Children Don't Count, a multiyear...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...1856. When cornered by federal marshals in a Cincinnati cabin, she murdered her two-year-old daughter and was on the verge of doing the same to the other three rather than...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
...spending the 2012–2013 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. This presentation is drawn from his book project, Sounding...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...years with the increasingly terse genre categories of writing: Chick Lit, Grunge Lit, or speaking of the American South, Grit Lit. I have to admit deep suspicion of easy taxonomy....
Inside Poor Monkey's
...year round, and tinsel in multiple lengths and shapes hangs from the ceiling. Walls are carpeted with photographs of images ranging from school graduation to promotional shots of strippers. Stuffed...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...But their sweet remains, their flesh and blood, seared stories into the land that kept account of such things. Mother Earth would exact a price. Twenty-nine years later, the white...