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...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...characters want something and you have to put those wants into relationship with each other, but not always conflict. I didn't want to write a story that was exclusively conflict...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...after that, you forget that that same person might want a sandwich too, might want a bowl of cereal, might like watching “Charlie's Angels,” might prefer orange to red. [laughter]...
The Tennessee Jamboree: Local Radio, the Barn Dance, and Cultural Life in Appalachian East Tennessee
...war, the number of cities and towns with local radio service doubled.15Ibid. AM 1450 WLAF in LaFollette, Tennessee, took to the airwaves in 1953 and, for the first time, provided...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...website of the Durham, North Carolina, non-profit NEEM (Natural Environment Ecological Management) features a narrative sketch that labels the rise of organic garden collectives in Cuban cities "the urban agriculture...
The Carolina Piedmont
...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...pressed his back to the wall, crying out in a deep voice: "'Wretches! What do you want?' "'We want to have a talk with you,' rejoined one of them, firing...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...been removed. Photographers visiting for the first time were shocked to see how much remained to be done. Those who had visited before could detect small differences, with activities of...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Carolyn wrote "Cheers Everybody!" in the mid-eighties, she wanted to document and comment on her lived experience. As she relates in the 1989 preface to the second edition of her...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...been the most visited site in the entire national park system. In recent years, more than eighteen million visitors have traveled parts of the Parkway every year."1Anne Mitchell Whisnant, "About...