"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...slaveholders' diaries, and newspapers are filled with instances of slaves capturing runaway strangers to protect themselves and their neighbors from the risks that went with harboring them. Capturing fugitive strangers...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...lawns, and then in construction where he learned to install electrical wiring in new suburban homes.18Interviews with Alfredo (2001, 2002). The labor of immigrant workers, like Alfredo and his uncle...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...peoples, in such projects as the collection she co-edited with Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...rented enslaved persons for labor. For instance, according to the Smithsonian Day Book, in which the Institution's financial expenditures were recorded, a payment was made on January 15, 1850 in...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...effort by then seems to have focused on locating bodies and identifying hazards such as instability in waterlogged structures and toxic air quality inside flood-marinated buildings. The discovery of bodies...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...women were not—by their addiction to unhealthy fashions such as wearing tight corsets and numerous petticoats, eating luxury foods, smoking, and drinking alcohol. The emotional instability and unhealthy habits of...
The Place of Appalachia
...book indicate otherwise. Interdependent and mutually defining economic, social, cultural, and political bonds between the urban and the rural become in many instances thicker and more complex with the accelerated...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...makes Franco's As I Lay Dying another installment in a series of unsatisfying films based on Faulkner's experimental fiction.2Faulkner himself worked in Hollywood on and off for over two decades,...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...stand in 1963, but were surprised at the building's level of decay: the administration warned us that structural instability might cause the roof to collapse while filming. We decided to...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...journal The Camp Merton Chronicles in November 1995. Peel's project centered on the renovation of Atlanta's John Howell Park and a new statue to be installed in it. Titled Hope...