Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...by valley fills. Once again, Kentucky suffered the largest loss with 281,347 acres. West Virginia lost 111,479 acres; Virginia, 42,629; and Tennessee, 3,017. The majority of these valley fills are...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles. First image of True Detective's title sequence, 2014, sequence by Antibody and Elastic. © HBO. If you have followed Southern...
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...
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...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...1976. Although the band’s most recent CD, Go-Go Boots—their tenth or eleventh album depending on how you count, and their second on ATO records—has three songs set in Los Angeles,...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....
Genres of Southern Literature
Introduction Booklover's Map of the United States, 1949. Map by Amy Jones. Courtesy of the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA-3.0. "Southern literature" announces the conjunction...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...median for all groups—Blacks, Whites, and Hispanics. Hispanics in West Columbia appear to have both higher numbers in poverty and higher household incomes than Hispanics or Blacks in Columbia or...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...