Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...and discussion of cross-cultural experiences expands our understanding of trading history, Paulett's imposition of spatial mapping onto the minds and experiences of African boatmen is not persuasive. Perhaps a boatman's...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, and across the Gulf of Mexico from Mississippi to New Orleans. Blacks regarded these communities as vital sites of leisure, relief from wage labor, business opportunities, and—even if too...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...providers, their own physicians, or their primary care facilities in their communities to access. What's different is there are so many coalminers of working age who have been laid off...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...to what Judith Butler has termed "frames of recognition"—normative structures that allow recognition of a subject as such, but only through an attempt to exclude or cast off aspects of...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...who had a car and a job, began fighting local authorities to increase bus service to the West Metro: I'm trying to help to fight for the bus line to...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...polite and to "let our camps do the talking," no one said much of anything beyond what William Jones offered: "We have no place to go," he told the Post-Dispatch....
Besieged Terrain
...mountains of the Blue Ridge, which is why they have put paved roads over or to the top of many of them. The Ridge and Valley—and especially the Appalachian Plateau—are...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...to the fanned-out delta. On the other side of Holland lay the wide and faltering ocean. Holland had no idea that his life was about to change permanently and that...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...of Virginia Press, 1992), 68–86. Neither is Mulcahly's the only recent book on the subject, joining Paul Pressly's excellent On the Rim of the Caribbean.3Paul M. Pressly, On the Rim...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...of post-Katrina New Orleans. Loved or hated, threatening or comforting, a source of survival pride or a negative mark to be obliterated, easily interpreted or enigmatic, a striking graphic or...