Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...everything else. "The whole diet was based on imported food," Miguel said. When the USSR collapsed and ceased buying sugar at inflated prices—over five times the going international rate—and the...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...(University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 196–197. The sack is described in the epilogue of Williams's book, and has been discussed from time to time in media reports since the...
Good-Bye to All That?
...good and government as a tool in reaching that common good has sometimes retreated one step backward, but retreat was always followed by two steps forward. Religious fervor centered around...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...the summer of 1938. By taking to the road, Daniels was following the lead of a number of writers who set out to see the United States in the midst...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...spent considerable time and energy repairing what the slave trade had broken, at times using the newly invigorated federal bureaucracy to accomplish this task. Reuben Skelter registered his marriage to...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...that reflects sustainable urban lifestyles. Longtime residents, most of whom are minorities and many of whom are economically disadvantaged, regard New Urbanism as producing new urban spaces that undermine the...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
Banner image for Driving Through Time, DocSouth, 2012. Review Well-worn words and phrases come to mind when driving the Blue Ridge Parkway—stunning, dramatic, timeless, a miracle of engineering and landscape...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...front-page article.3Perlstein, Michael, “For Tales of Life and Death, the Writing’s on the Walls,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, September 17, 2005, p.1. Too often, though, the message sent was not the...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...