On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...in which Kazin never, by "Native," means American Indian writing from any region of the Americas. My new book project, On Native Southern Ground, sets out to demonstrate that the...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...of essays entitled Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures (New York: Continuum, 2011), which examines how the concepts of "noise" and "error" structure modes of cultural resistance...
Encountering COVID
...all by myself. Then out of the blue came the idea of Humans of New York. And I thought, "Oh, Brandon Stanton interviewed thousands of people in New York, took...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...of modernization in the Savannah River basin as a series of conflicts over water resource development. It is a history of "building new working, living, and leisure environments," (12) of the...
Hurricane Helene Visits Marshall, North Carolina
...Katrina in New Orleans, Hugo in South Carolina, Floyd in Eastern North Carolina, and now, Helene in my backyard. There are similarities between the four. The mud. The displaced buildings...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...the need for healthcare providers like my mother remains unbounded. Chronic sickness and death saturate the landscape. Home, July 2018. Collage by Eric Solomon. Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0....
"Aint that Something?"
...Coal mining, unemployment, drug addiction, and religious fervor dominate the landscape and the culture. It is, in other words, straight-up Appalachia. But as Trampoline embraces its Appalachian-ness, it also questions...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Thought from Slavery to Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977). Community, after all, was a key word in the new social history. For revisionist historians "community" signaled a broad...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...interdisciplinary approach to gain new insights into this shifting social and political landscape. He uses the formation of the Catawba Nation from many smaller groups, known as coalescence, to understand...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...The shape of Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page's installation mirrors that of the gallery in order to comment on how culture — rituals, codes, manners, and customs — is...