No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...were eligible for public housing in South Carolina. But eligibility and availability are two different things. And many people cannot afford housing officially designated as "affordable." In 2006 the fair...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...16, 1939, Folder "Tenant Farming, 1939-1944," Box 1, Official File 1650, Papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, New York (hereafter FDR); Colonel B.M. Casteel to Governor...
Besieged Terrain
...Blue Ridge is the most easterly part of the range, with mountains that average three thousand feet in elevation, but many can exceed six thousand feet. Clingman's Dome in the...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...He asks for help. If he's told no, he asks again or finds someone else. At 8:30 one Sunday morning many years ago, for example, my phone rang. "Were you...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...meaningful continuities. William Faulkner, for example, influenced iconic Caribbean writers Derek Walcott and Édouard Glissant and also made a pronounced impact on South American writer Gabriel García Márquez.1Valérie Loichot, Orphan...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...New Orleans, Louisiana, May 24, 2008. Photograph by R. Joel Lowy. © R. Joel Lowy. Right, Rebuilding, Bywater, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 2010. Photograph by Dorothy Moye. © Dorothy Moye....
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...nation through assimilation or absorption (85). Cover to Karl Jacoby's The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave who Became a Mexican Millionaire (New York: W.W. Norton, 2016). In 1894, William Ellis,...
Genres of Southern Literature
...of culture. The claim to order that is presented here highlights selected genres indelibly associated with the South: the plantation novel, the slave narrative, southwestern humor, southern pastoral and "counter-pastoral,"...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...the political processes are equally open; that is, whether members of a protected class have the same opportunity as others to participate in the electoral process and to elect candidates...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...