Transcript: "Lucy Mae Blues" by Cecil Barfield
...do Bye bye little woman now, if you call that gone Better leave your things, baby, thinking all day long Better not let my good gal catch you here Ain’t...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
The Mere Region by Robert Jackson A critical review of some of T.S. Eliot's narrowly ideological invocations of region encourages us to clarify and redefine the term, for Eliot's own...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...Larry Legaux. Courtesy of Larry Legaux. While it is clear that the status of rap in the New Orleans public imagination is shifting, as evidenced by increased festival bookings, a...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...is extensive. Major works include Daniel Joseph Singal, The War Within: From Victorian to Modernist Thought in the South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982); Michael O'Brien, The Idea of the...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...accommodations that he had seen in Chattanooga, Atlanta, Macon, and elsewhere.1"A Step Backward," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 19, 1891, 98. Built and maintained by the railroads, colored waiting rooms...
"Aint that Something?"
...include Silas House, Ann Pancake, Amy Greene, and David Joy, among many others. Appalachian authors of color including Nikky Finney, Crystal Wilkinson, Jacinda Townsend, and Frank X Walker dispel pervasive...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...is to uplift him and tell him he matters. He invites us all to "do a better job of that."10Alex Abad-Santos, "Watch: Mahershala Ali's powerful SAG Awards speech on persecution...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...in hotel rooms or friend's apartments, often six or seven in a sleeping quarter planned for one or two. A few churches in the region have reported opening their doors...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Alfred E. Hawkins issued the first convictions, Judge Roberts spoke movingly about the continued need for adequate legal counsel. Ellen Spears, Historian David Carter, Jane Carter, historian Dan Carter,...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...persistence of the Atlanta MSA's high Index of Dissimilarity between whites and blacks illustrates ongoing segregation even amid changes in geographic concentration.43The Index of Dissimilarity, a popular summary statistic for...