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...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...The World Factbook (United States Central Intelligence Agency). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. As a result, Island People often reads like a disjointed narrative of island...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...book, the problems it raises, and the ones that remain to be raised. Gwen Ottinger, whose 2013 book Refining Expertise performed a sharp analysis of discourse between local activists protesting...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Movement at age thirteen, handing out leaflets during the Montgomery Bus Boycott under the direction of his pastor, Ralph David Abernathy. Taylor graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Why would McDonald and Dinsmoor, whose interests appeared to be at odds, share a stake in McDonald's son? That question lies at the heart of this book. For as it...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...History of Environmental Racism in the United States (New York: New York University Press, 2015); Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...as any. The fluidity of American culture — and I think ultimately region in the United States must be defined not politically or legally but in the most inclusive cultural...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...importunes you to the point of rage to buy cheap candy, Coca-Cola, and worthless, if not vulgar, books." Segregated waiting room at Union Station railroad depot, Jacksonville, Florida, 1921. Photograph...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...of imaginative departure for much of her fiction.1Flannery O'Connor, Letters to Betty Hester: 1955-1964. Manuscript Collection No. 1064. Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. The O'Connor-Hester letters suggest...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Review In this short book, distinguished political scientist Adolph L. Reed, Jr. offers remembrances from his early life below the Mason-Dixon line as a member of the last African American...