Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...chapters, as well as the introduction and conclusion, opens with a character sketch of a participant in the trade, providing immediacy, reinforcing the role of imagination in the creation of...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...private interest groups in an attempt to deny blacks physical access to the Pacific Beach Club, to condemn the property, and to convert the land into a public—i.e. white—beach. White...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...Rasmussen back in 1978 and he appreciated the work that I did in that era when I was active in not only helping miners but also advocating improvements in state...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...once."24Ibid., 73. The "iterable structure" of the frame—the fact that "the frame breaks with itself to reproduce itself"—gives rise to an inherent instability in this interpretive moment.25Ibid., 24. In one...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
.... . [I've] never been homeless, and it shocked me. I always had a good job. I had three jobs and that's all gone. It wiped it all out. I...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...Owen Whitfield demanded that if the federal government offered relief in response to a disaster it created with dynamite, it should address the disaster caused by its legislation.10Wright, Old South,...
Besieged Terrain
..."A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it does otherwise."1Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac:...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...is a movement that is unstoppable. Success is hard to measure. But I believe that water quality in the basin has improved steadily, incrementally, one part per million at a...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007). It is salutary to occasionally violate these framing devices—their utility notwithstanding—in the interest...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
.... . . It pained me to paint it over, but honestly I haven't missed it since. Perhaps I over read its symbolic importance; perhaps I let the pragmatic trump...