Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...from issues of accuracy of representation in a documentary to issues of performance. In this sense we revisited not just Flaherty's sites, but also something of his methods. In the...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
...hundred acres of commercial development, six thousand single family residences, six thousand multi-family dwellings, park sites, church and school sites, a country club, swimming pool, tennis courts, an executive golf...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...to home, are linguistically bereft: there is no term to describe the successful interface of natural and built environs. Outside cities, we have any number of categories for describing natural...
Religion and the US South
...immigration, brought more Catholics into the South at the turn of the twentieth century, although the numbers were far below those in northeastern and midwestern areas. These newcomers energized the church and...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...however, something unexpected happened. An African American named Brenda Ethridge stepped up to the microphone. She introduced herself as a descendant of Aunt Grace, the first slave owned by Chang...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...city in northeastern Brazil where he had long lived and where he completed the work. Cover page of the Guia de Caminhantes ("Guide for Walkers"), Salvador (Bahia), Brazil, 1817. Created...
Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey
...of the subsequent Vietnamese state notoriously included the development of re-education camps and the incarceration of former government officials and civil servants. An enduring legacy of the post-Việt Nam War...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...County, West Virginia, for generations. "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment" presents images taken in 2005 and 2006 during Dotter's trips to towns in eastern Kentucky and southern West...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...Guatemala. And while men still make up the majority of Maya migrants, a growing number of women and children have joined husbands, fathers, and brothers in Georgia, resulting in a...
Besieged Terrain
...eastern Kentucky, most of West Virginia, southeastern Ohio, and southwestern Pennsylvania. Because this area was not glaciated during the last ice age, which ended 12,500 years ago, it became a...