Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...wonder if by that he also means the war the U.S. is waging in Iraq, Afghanistan, elsewhere. I think about how almost every day the papers run stories, buried in...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...of passage, the quilt has been handed down with little evidence that it was ever used as a bedcover. Published: 19 May 2006 © 2006 Laurel Horton and Southern Spaces...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Florida, and parts of Louisiana"—is a "socio-cultural model" that allows her to explore the historical complexities of an increasingly multiethnic space and not "some projection backward in time of what...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...dynamic and patchy social contexts.”23Nazarea, Heirlooms and their Keepers. Orlove and Brush, "Anthropology and the conservation of biodiversity," 342. Indeed, the contemporary Ozarks, as much as anywhere else, represents...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...denied." Someone there had "something particular to fear" and the passionate refusal to allow photography filled Cohen with fear. Nothing else happened that day, he wrote, "but this is the...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...to justify the loving of this particular couple as valid? For whom are the filmmakers making Loving and why are they placing this story of the past in our present?...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...Spears contends, "a paradigmatic case for the need for precaution, for addressing toxic chemical exposures not after the fact but before damage is done" (298). About the Author Elena Conis...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...particular place can only produce a limited number of marketable artists) and, to a lesser degree, speculative exploration (that going to obscure places might yield a novel interpretation of the...