Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...asks that we consider the space of the plantation not only as a physical landscape of endless rows of cotton stalks but also as spaces constructed by and in service...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...the various parts of the swamp, the more I loved it. And again, I'm from there. This is my native landscape, so I was very happy to be doing what...
How the Court Killed the Voting Rights Act
...Attorney General’s young Republican recruits who sought to overturn the Supreme Court's prior cases about reapportionment and voting rights. When he applied for a promotion to become a Deputy Assistant...
Hurricane Helene Visits Marshall, North Carolina
Thursday, September 26, 2024 In Marshall talking with Joel and Josh. Very real concerns about the river, which is at ten feet, fierce, and rapidly rising. The island is already...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...the coast that were points of origin or holding areas.3Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson, "The Cultural Landscape of Slavery at Kormantsin, Ghana." Landscape Research 30, no. 4 (October 2005): 461. Or as important...
Imprinting This Place: Rob Amberg's Documentary Journey
...right with God?”1Rob Amberg, Little Worlds (Marshall, North Carolina: RobbieBooks, 2024), 7-9. The road to Robert and Jane's, Paw Paw, 2012. Renowned documentary photographer Rob Amberg presents in Little Worlds...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...use of imagery has critiqued, promoted, and problematized the idea of the South and its rap music culture. Rap and Place Perhaps the most remarkable dimension of the Dirty South...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...Atlanta's, but many other municipal codes are silent. A number of cities, towns, and counties are facing an unexpected ambiguity: if there is nothing on the books about chickens, is...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...to negotiate their anxieties over a shifting racial landscape amid growing civil rights activism. In telling of the infamous South of the Border roadside attraction in South Carolina, Márquez shows...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...urban landscape, e.g. occupancy of office buildings; closure of retail stores; restructuring of restaurants and pedestrian spaces? How are the over one million lives lost to Covid in the United...