The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...job she can't be fired from, because she's a freelance bookkeeper, working mostly for her son Wade, which we do witness onscreen. She still has to work. Retirement is not...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...lasted between forty-five minutes and two hours and were conducted between May 2007 and September 2008.10Trained graduate-student research assistants and I conducted the interviews, and participants provided informed consent beforehand....
Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses
...Atlanta and born in the basement because the Yankees were occupying the rest of the house. I exhumed the woman with every speech, because it was terribly important to let...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Shunning talking heads, Jafa recorded audio and visual components separately and then paired them together during post-production. Such an approach allows for "an extended freedom in both sound and image"...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...comfortable "back east" and in such august company. To Hardwig's mind, this image elegantly captures the "enormous gulf between the communities depicted in Murfree's dialect stories about the Tennessee mountains...
The Making of the Arkansas Cemetery Angel: AIDS Activism, Care Work, and Fragmentary Archives in the Life of Ruth Coker Burks
...Our House in Hot Springs as goddesses who transformed the city. “The performers came and went . . . It was like Dynasty, but that was absurd because we were...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...two interests converge between the individual defendant and the tribe. I think it promotes what I teach: tribes are made up of individuals. What I was taught from my family...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...served by improved roads, was the "gateway to Florida" (10, 58), and provides a useful window into larger debates about centralization, planning, funding, and labor. Dixie Highway's tendency to use...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...plays a prominent role, not only because of the city's central east-west geographic location in the continental United States and its north-south location equidistant between Toronto, Canada, and Monterrey, Mexico,...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...parade, the band must move the crowd. The participatory nature of second lines "facilitates relations between people, providing a sense of place in which the social is enmeshed with the...