Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...of processed food that seems to grow its own trash, and Hushpuppy insists that you still have to "fix what you can." Still from Beasts of the Southern Wild, Twentieth...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...industry, and promoting professional sports and entertainment have created mixed economic and social outcomes. Some strategies that focus on geographic location have enhanced the city's comparative advantages in transportation and...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...the ecological crisis. Many scientific studies have proved that global warming is the consequence of the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions caused by the fossil fuel industries and that it...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...of the Cherokees, Georgians registered for the October lotteries that would distribute their land to so-called fortunate drawers. Anticipation ran high. Georgia was the only state in the nation that...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...against Stevens products and the stores that sold them. The United Presbyterian Church identified three Biblical concepts that supported workers' right to organize and passed a resolution that urged its...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...the public knowledge base that people access through Wikipedia. Here, though, has been the rub. We believe that our authors provide information and ideas that build new and significant knowledge,...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...testified that Rolfs ordered him to say that "no peonage existed there" and that "I did so." Will Nanse reported that Harlan and Huggins removed workers who might attest to...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...and we located and glimpsed the history in the names. Who was Todd and what did he dump? What Ladies gave their legacy to Ladies Pass? Where are the elms...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...to white southerners anxious about the potential social changes that came with slaves' emancipation. In a somewhat similar fashion, Sibley's writing provided a suburban imaginary that comforted white readers as...
"Aint that Something?"
...of the region that still endure; think of the toothless, bearded hillbilly with a jug of moonshine, or simple folks carving wood or making quilts. A hundred years later, James...