No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...everywhere you need to go." A housing authority worker said: That was the biggest complaint that we had from the clients in that they were so used to the New...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...style that continues today. The egalitarianism at the heart of the tradition may help explain the resurgence in popularity that this music has enjoyed. New singers, especially in urban areas...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...it, why they decide to do it, in what context and before whom, what senses are born from that experience. Gunnels: I want to give readers a sense of your...
The Carolina Piedmont
...warned of the tendencies of unplanned, market-driven growth. His words echo today along the congested Interstate 85 corridor and the euphemistically named "edge cities" that sprawl through the core of...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...Moonlight, what is unsaid, what is invisible, is represented as equal in power to what is said and shown. Reading for the beneath raises ethical questions: Why do we need...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...hard to find that skyline interrupted dramatically when you go to a hollow that has several seams of coal that have been accessed by removing the overburden and moving that...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...and two together from what he'd told me. His squad didn't do that more than a couple days. The officers immediately realized that it wasn't working, that it was dangerous,...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...other entertainment venues, scholarship on segregation at the drive-in is almost nonexistent. There are indications that such segregation may have been the norm in Dixie. Robert Weyeneth notes that the...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...of speed limits. The written legal code and the enforcement efforts do not always affect what one encounters on the highway. Despite the legal sanctioning of memorial plantings and state...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...consuming recorded music. For Kun, "music functions like a possible utopia for the listener, that music is experienced not only as sound that goes into our ears and vibrates through...