The Black Belt
...https://www.loc.gov/resource/stereo.1s02973/ Six generations of African American women in Selma, Alabama, ca. 1893. Photograph by R.W. Harrison. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3c04928/ Pro-slavery secessionist sentiment...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
Neither Eden nor Wasteland Ninety miles south of Florida lies the island that PBS's Nature calls the "Accidental Eden."1"Cuba: Accidental Eden," Nature, PBS (September 26, 2010), http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/cuba-the-accidental-eden/introduction/5728/. According to the...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...the South' has affected the inhabitants of the U.S. South," and attempts gestures in the opposite direction (1). However, the whole remains too linear and one-directional. Calypso Magnolia could benefit...
The Liminal Site
...the start, and quite unavoidably (given the glory of the site), I imagined my garden as site-specific art, a celebration of both place and space. What I wanted—my wife, far...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...of dating and place of publication, see Metcalf, 89-97; Lowens and Britton, 115-37; Bealle 269, n. 1). This compilation of primarily American music incorporated shape-notes, or patent-notes, for the first...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...1946 lynching of four young African Americans at Moore’s Ford, near Monroe in Walton County, Georgia. Since 2005 hundreds of people have gathered at several sites in Walton County to...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...“shatter zones” such places as Yunnan, the southwestern province of China; the corridor of highland Africa that was safe from slave-raiding; and the Balkans and the Caucasus—and also many sites...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...of Robert Penn Warren, finally placing both Warren and Styron in the tradition of the slave narrative. Styron's first novel, Lie Down in Darkness (1951), has been understood as being...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...the enslaved. She spoke about how they emerged from the hull of the ship in complete darkness, after months at sea, disoriented, terrified, and unable to communicate with their captors...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...2010, Oakland, CA), https://mki.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1100/2014/10/Petty_GSA-2010_Panorama.pdf. Today, among all Civil War battle panoramas, the Gettysburg and Atlanta cyclorama paintings are the only survivors on public display, each showcased in a twenty-first-century exhibition...