Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...toxic sludge, which contains concentrated toxic substances such as selenium, cadmium, boron, arsenic and nickel. In addition to the knowledge that these dams can break (as one did in Buffalo...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families," NPR News, October 25, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141672992/native-foster-care-lost-children-shattered-families. Sioux boys as they arrived at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, ca. 1892. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of New York Public...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...the opening titles came together, what they mean,'" Take Two, Southern California Public Radio (March 9, 2014), http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2014/03/09/36373/hollywood-jobs-crafting-the-opening-titles-for-tru/. True Detective inscribes into the critical geography of Petrochemical America what Gwen...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...Center, Los Angeles, CA, December 17, 2021. Photograph by Jae C. Hong. Courtesy of the Associated Press. SARS CoV-2 is not the first viral respiratory pathogen to emerge and spread...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...the subject’s blood to illustrate queer resilience: that we can be wounded to the point of needing a cast, but if we keep going we can become stronger. For example,...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...most recent book, Everything But the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009), examines the making of coffee house and public culture in contemporary America....
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
..."Shirley Caesar: A Woman of Words" (PhD diss., Ohio State University, 1992); Birgitta J. Johnson, "Back to the Heart of Worship: Praise and Worship Music in a Los Angeles African-American...
Genres of Southern Literature
...its genre might not seem a touchstone of much value. To some, genres are universal categories that describe formal literary conventions, not geo-social preoccupations. Yet, the South can be said...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...Eastern Europeans, and Somali Bantu refugees. Columbia and West Columbia, South Carolina Map showing the Midlands of South Carolina, 2012. Columbia, the state capital, and West Columbia are in the...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
Introduction Letcher County Judge, Carroll Smith, visits with local resident loading house coal. Letcher County, KY, 2005. Taking pictures in conjunction with Volunteers In Service To America (1968-1970), then continuing...