"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...meat, eggs, milk, or labor, must now be replaced with tractors, chemical fertilizers, and store-bought food. If the farmer moves to large-scale animal production, s/he must purchase large amounts of...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...this map, click here. At the most distant zoom level, only Stevens mills with significant union action are labeled. The larger the marker the greater the number of employees and...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
Review I recently went to an opening-night screening in West Los Angeles of Richard Linklater's latest film, Boyhood. This was no red-carpet affair. There were no designer gowns, photographers, or...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...pick. It was very educational for me to see how labor worked in the countryside, how few people there were left doing farm labor, even for just a few hours...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...place of empty Main Streets, “Last Picture Shows,” and Hardee's restaurants out on the two-lane state highway selling biscuits and gravy. Cover of Eddie Hinton's Dear Y'all: The Songwriting Sessions,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...from long years of manual labor left him unemployed, poor, and unsure as to how he would provide for his family. Cohen emphasized the centrality of work and manual labor...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...although some chapters have to be taken cum grano salis (of which, more later). Everyone Drinks Cafe Au Lait at the French Market, from the WPA Guide to New Orleans....
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...present from the young judge's in-laws. Known for her exceptionally large feet, Grace would assume the slave–nanny role and exert a large influence in the twins' family, nursing all of...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...26 percent—adding as many as 1 ½ million children in extreme poverty since 2008. During the last two years, the western states have had the largest rise of extremely poor...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...in Washington, DC, Mildred and Richard decide, in violation of state law, to move back to Virginia with their three young children. They find a farmhouse. It has no telephone...