Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...of Illinois Press, 2015), 123. Mountaintop coal mine, Charleston, West Virginia, October 16, 2008. Photograph by Flickr user ddimick. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC 2.0. Cropped from original. There is...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...threw up the first levees. No one had bothered before the floods, Powell dryly points out. “But this was how things went in New Orleans before New Orleans officially became...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...Poems and a Pandemic" in Political Emotions: New Agendas in Communication, ed. Janet Steiger et al. (New York: Routledge, 2010). And, as a happening, poetry has a particular power to depict...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...the transparency of film and replaces this with a performative exchange between subjects, filmmakers/apparatus and spectators."11Stella Bruzzi, New Documentary: A Critical Introduction (New York: Routledge, 2000): 6. When our own...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...young migrant worker had raped a white woman, the mob doused him in oil and burned him alive. Anti-American riots broke out across Mexico following news of the lynching and...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...in their code of conduct: they require citations. Their references and recommended resources sections aggregate online materials, provding users with a range of further reading. They also seem to be...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum (New York, The New Press, 2020). deals with the first hundred years of Georgia's Central State Hospital in Milledgeville...
Encountering COVID
Michelle Fishburne and her dog Buddy outside of their RV. White Sands National Park, New Mexico. February 2021. Photograph courtesy of author. Southern Spaces: Oh, here's Michelle now. Are you...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...Theory: Key Writings that Formed the Movement (New York: The New Press, 1995), 376. Crenshaw describes the importance of "intersectionality" to the experiences of black women, specifically, but her insights...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...in the Urban Church (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); Bob Darden, People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music (New York: Bloomsbury, 2004); Anthony Heilbut, Gospel Sound:...