Vishwesh Bhatt is a Southern chef using flavors from his childhood to add to the lexicon of Southern Food. SFA summer film intern Nicole Du Bois produced this film about him.
The 2018 SFA Graduate Student Conference will be Monday and Tuesday, September 10-11. Professor and author Kyla Wazana Tompkins from Pomona College will offer the keynote on Monday night at 6 p.m. The public is invited.
Al Clayton’s Still Hungry in America asks two questions. First, what are the economic mechanisms that led to the circumstances depicted here? And second, what are the structures that keep this hunger and poverty in place?
Today, fishermen struggle as shrimp grow smaller and fewer, foreign imports increase, and their community ages. Add more hurricanes, a disintegrating coastline, and regular oil spills, and the future looks bleak for fisherfolk and their families. That’s where Sandy Nguyen comes in.
The year was 1925, and the place was Arlington, Texas. Klan klaverns 66, 101, and 334 from Dallas, Fort Worth, and Oak Cliff, respectively, had planned the barbecue and accompanying ceremony “to demonstrate the fact that the Klan is not dead.”
