Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...a chorus of animals: "'I'm hungry. I want to poop.' But sometimes they start talking in codes." How do we make our way into the coded life of other species?...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...textbooks. But nearly every major US newspaper covered the events of March 1931 in northeast Alabama. The news of successive Scottsboro trials reverberated globally, prompting demonstrations from Cape Town to...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...special ceremony, a new Maya princess was crowned and greeted by the crowd. This Maya Catholic celebration was an unusual sight in Cherokee County, a predominantly white, Protestant locale about...
Deep Ellum Blues
...trying to get to something like the newly developed Quadrangle, an elegant new shopping development just a few blocks away in the Oak Lawn district. Perhaps a wrong turn was...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...life in a region where Spanish-speaking migrants and immigrants are variously welcomed, tolerated, and scorned. In recent years, Latin American immigrants comprised the largest population of new arrivals to Atlanta:...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...study of how these new relationships worked themselves out, how an urban area became the frontier of racial policy in the New South. Atlanta lies in the southwestern end of...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Stuff: Looking through the Window of a Jim Crow Train," New York Amsterdam News, November 13, 1943, 8B. The rudeness continued inside the Jim Crow car. "The conductor appropriates two...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...2008. His well-written and suggestive new book, Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, is as engrossing as it is grim. He argues convincingly that during the eighteenth and...
Brushes with War
...1670 through the Stono Rebellion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974), Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), and three recent books on black...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...and Whites in Christian America: How Racial Discrimination Shapes Religious Convictions, Religion and Social Transformation (New York: New York University Press, 2012); Randall Balmer, "The Real Origins of the Religious...