When the Border Crossed Me
...and grow crops in their absence. We had a love of farming in common. But it hit me hard when I realized that one huge chasm between us was my...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...depicts Haitians traveling by passenger jet and wooden boat to Miami, framing Rey and Stepick's emphasis on religious exchange and serving as a devotional reminder of the journeys between these...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...low, only to me, “Better get them dues paid. Next check, okeh?” I nod, duck out the lot hitch a semi home down highway 50 smellin’ like crackers and peanut...
Runaway
Barefoot in the actual dark, I packed a paper bag And found the way out of my lover's house. I had only the glass coffee table as obstacle; I slipped...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...himself), the study of Confederate literature illuminates "the still-shadowy relationship between literature and nationalism" by enabling scholars to explore a concentrated, intense effort of novelists, poets, and critics to write...
The Colonialist's Gaze
...Hill (used previously by the Spanish military for the transmission of communications), Armstrong figuratively dominates the landscape by sweeping his arms over the mountains. Later he inscribes relevant cartographical information...
Homage to Mississippi John Hurt
...week after I bought it, while it traveled between Herman Wallecki & Sons of Los Angeles and southern Illinois, I dreamed of a guitar so old it had weathered gray...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...persons with an annual income of $22,231 or less was eligible for free lunch; a student with an annual family income of $31,765 or less was eligible for reduced-price lunch....
Anniversary
...riots where the Greyhound station's been made a museum of itself, what was reflected now etched on the windows, the froth of clubs and chains, even rakes, over the Freedom...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...on all the wrong maps. The death threat was because Scott's father—who had brought his wife and children to the Delta in 1919—dreamed of being a black landowner instead of...