Dirty Little Story
...has gone out of the outing. Nobody wants to wade through a pig pen to the lake. I have spent much time on this lake for the last quarter-century. Yes,...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...Somdal. Originally published in Chicago Daily Tribune (August 24, 1945). Courtesy of Chicago Tribune Archives. Writing to Petrie from her home in Claxton, Plyler said she had read that the...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...(Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2011). Key is how this relates to an artistic dedication to an underclass sensibility untranslatable to the mainstream, for which New Orleans (and its microcosms) has...
Encountering COVID
...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...you in Vietnam? GAUTREAUX: I was going to join the Air Force, but they had that draft lottery, and I drew number 361. Number one went, and the further away...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...industry developed across the city, attracting immigrant labor. At the same time, Nashville’s service economy grew and created new demand for low-wage workers. The Music City in the late-twentieth century...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...a safe means of exiting and entering the roadway. The location of street corner pickup sites was subject to change depending upon a number of factors including city regulations, police...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...Providing black citizens separate spaces that approximated the outdoor experiences whites enjoyed at coastal beaches, interior lakes, and mountain parks was a practical impossibility. Even modest attempts by state and...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...launch party down at the old burned-out train station. That first Hub City Anthology led to Hub City Music Makers and Hub City Christmas the next year, and now, twelve...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...minute by minute. The air was diaphanous with salty mist, like a veil. A finger of white sand reached out from Little St. Simons Island as if to calm the...