Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...thirty years ago to photograph the region’s people and sugar cane economy. Here, in their respective “outlands,” the flow of time seems obscured and the supernatural is immanent. They conjure...
A Mess of Poke
...the pound to bring in the raw product. Allen ran its last batch of canned poke sallet in 2000. As the company's supervisor explained on an Arkansas Extension Service web...
Roadside Architecture
...at least to my eyes. The churches, for example, reflect their creators' faith in the supreme importance of their goal and give voice to the notion that spiritual concerns supersede...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...for Culture and Learning is filing preliminary paperwork to have the building added to the National Register of Historic Places, and the Bolivar County Board of Supervisors renamed the nearby...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...slaves' mobility and social space. Yet slaveholders had to live with slave mobility. Enslaved teamsters carted cotton and provisions between plantation and town, usually without supervision, for days at a...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...of Southern Spaces. Our first trip in September 2015 also coincided with "king tides," spring tides accentuated by a relatively stronger gravitational pull associated with a "super moon." This situation...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...aesthetics of advertising. Eggleston met Viva, a Warhol superstar, at his 1976 MOMA exhibition. After they began an affair, Eggleston visited the Factory and met Warhol. Some of his photographs,...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...black folk—above their other concerns." While whites "loved feeling superior to black folk and they loved segregation," he writes, their "churches were unwilling to make sacrifices to preserve segregation. They...
Local Color
...of voice. Often they employed a white male frame narrator whose superiority is not confirmed but instead undermined by his blindness to the complexity of the story within the frame....
Hill Brothers Long Log Harvesting
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