Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...Report, June 5, 2015, http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2015/06/04/appalachia-gripped-by-hepatitis-c-epidemic-bracing-for-hiv. Is it any wonder that Chiron, a young man trying to decide who he is going to be, might be frightened of the sexual urges...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...Michael Brown joins a small group of scholars who are re-engaging the United States, particularly the Anglophone American South, in conversations about African-Atlantic religions. He situates the South Carolina Lowcountry...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...ourselves, we're never going to get anywhere."49Daniel Rothenberg, With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000), 217. Work, even...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...2017, www.npr.org/2017/03/08/515814287/heres-whats -become-of-a-historic-all-black-town-in-the-mississippi-delta. Businesses and bank of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, ca. 1912–1920. Photograph by Milton McFarland Painter, Sr. Image is in the public domain. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...of belief and believability in revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story—and their Louisiana. Student Videos and Interviews "Still/Immobile 6 Minutes" "Still/Immobile 6 Minutes," Mercer Hathorn and James Peck, 2006 A film made...
My Grandmother's Plot in the Family Cemetery
...Daughter or pitied Sister, one of those who never married. Published in Late Wife (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005). Published: 26 October 2009 © 2009 Claudia Emerson...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...a Minute Freestyle," Swishahouse, 2004. Elements from Houston's "screw" style have influenced other rap being produced there, as in this track by Michael "5000" Watts featuring Archie Lee. New Orleans...
"Aint that Something?"
...Dawn Jewell makes Trampoline unforgettable. "Who is it about if it aint about us?," © Robert Gipe, 2015. Originally published in Trampoline (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2015), 285. This material...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...was turned to anger, while their stifled screams of 'de debbil,' formed a euphonious compound, which taken in connection with the darkness around might well put one in mind of...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...Mine disaster. His images of laid-off and out-of-work miners suggest current tensions between miners and coal company management. Kanawha River Coal Load Out Facility. Montgomery, WV, 2005. Mining and the...