Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...key barrier to its implementation has been removed. Virginia's pending voter ID law now is also free of preclearance requirements and will likely be implemented as well. Mississippi's voter ID law—put...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...be a fair representation of NOLA gentrification. It was just before Hurricane Katrina that the neighborhood around NOCCA began to be seen as a hip option—at least in my experience....
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...in effective copyright protection, fair contracts and free expression." The Authors Guild's suit alleged that the massive digitization and preservation effort undertaken by the HathiTrust and its affiliates represented a...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...includes 1,600 color photographs taken between 1939 and 1944. Many of the images depict rural farming practices, social life in towns, factories and their environmental effects, and aspects of World...
The Bulletin—June 19, 2013
...will double the size of the collections and will provide increased access to HathiTrust's nearly eleven million volumes. In addition, HathiTrust metadata records will be freely available under a Creative Commons license....
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...broad range of southern labor themes, including panels related to slavery and unfree labor; prisons and labor; oil, fishing, and the Gulf Coast; work and disaster capitalism; tourism and the...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...deport all immigrants without legal status, and deny citizenship to children born in the United States if their parents are not lawful residents. A crowd of at least twenty thousand,...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Work
...months between Lejeune and college. After two babies. Worked to the tune of minimum wage, ten-hour days, and culled furniture. Once I went into the deafening grind and buzz of...
Chattahoochee (excerpt)
...hung, turning all afternoon on the breeze. My rod bends towards breaking, then straightens as the fish darts free through the sunken junkyard that grows by the weight of one...