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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAT FIRST, you're not quite sure what you're looking at: a windshield blotted like a Jackson Pollock painting; twin smokestacks squatting over pale water; a sawn tree stump, so red at its center you'd think it was...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedON A STEAMY JUNE AFTERNOON in 1970, a crowd gathered outside the Sea Pines Company's sprawling headquarters on the southern end of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Led by the Rev. I. DeQuincey Newman of the South...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWELCOME TO THIS special Human/Natun issue of Southern Cultures. We are honored to have historian Andy Horowitz as our guest editor, on the heels of his brilliant new book Katrina: A History, 191J-201J, published in 2020....
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWE COME FROM the very land and water on which we depend for our survival. As the world turns, life also revolves. Spring gives us life. Summer gives us growth. In autumn, leaves fall and plants wither, becoming food for...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAS I WALKED UP THE HILL with my camera, the Quiet House slowly came Into view. I didn't recognize It at first. I had memorized the photographs that Hazel Larsen Archer and Robert Rauschenberg made of the stone sanctuary...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJEAN HOOPER, EIGHTY-FIVE, STANDS in the Pamlico Sound at the Saivo Day Use Area. She was born on Hatteras Island and has watched the sea steadily reshape the only home she's ever known. Behind her is the Salvo Community...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA FEW MONTHS AGO, longing for an ancestral experience I've never had, I went on a bison hunt to Costco, where it is possible to buy rectangular packets of mushy ground meat. While there, I spied another shrink-wrapped...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedART PROVIDES a powerful historical archive through which we can see our lost environmental past. In 1915, the artist Romare Bearden left the South at the age of four; decades later, he rendered evocative depictions of...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE PLASTIC-DRAPED wooden structure in Fish Display welcomes you to Reedville, Virginia. Vastly out of proportion to its surroundings, It celebrates the role commercial fishing has played in "The Town Fish Built." As the...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHE TEA ROOM is part of my FloodZone project, which looks at the subtle traces and signs of what is happening to the southern United States as it comes to terms with rising sea levels. The photograph was taken in Miami's...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWHEN I WAS TEN, for my father's fifty-seventh birthday, I made him an acrostic poem card. After the "B" for "Brave" and the "R" for "Really Wonderful" in his first name BORIS was the "E" for "Expert on Aldo Leopold" in...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedWHILE RIDING MY MOTORCYCLE on Louisiana Highway 77 in 2014, I encountered a group of nearly fifty people on horseback. They commanded the narrow, two-lane road that runs along Bayou Grosse Tete, and I pulled off to the...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTHIS IS A BRIEF REFLECTION on water, swamps, bayous, wetlands, and Black life in the United States, and the forms of freedom and racialized unfreedom that these ecologies have facilitated. Our ongoing collective project...
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From:Southern Cultures (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMUSICIAN LANEY SULLIVAN HAS been a powerful, persistent advocate for environmental accountability and efforts to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) and recently cancelled Atlantic Coast Pipeline, Her band Holy River...