Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...some time to come, as it becomes clear that reconstruction will take an enormously lengthy period of time. As has happened elsewhere, then, what is likely to occur is that...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...and we located and glimpsed the history in the names. Who was Todd and what did he dump? What Ladies gave their legacy to Ladies Pass? Where are the elms...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...Zawadski case in my home state, I cannot help but ponder "to live with equal dignity." What is at stake in overturning "religious freedom" laws is more than the "freedom"...
"Aint that Something?"
...of the region that still endure; think of the toothless, bearded hillbilly with a jug of moonshine, or simple folks carving wood or making quilts. A hundred years later, James...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...to white southerners anxious about the potential social changes that came with slaves' emancipation. In a somewhat similar fashion, Sibley's writing provided a suburban imaginary that comforted white readers as...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Winders, “‘New Americans’ in a ‘New South’ City?;” and Winders, “An ‘Incomplete’ Picture?.” Stan Schnier, A woman at the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride holds a sign that asks “What color...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Movement in American Memory (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006). Chroniclers of the black freedom struggle have long sought to dispel the collective memory that undergirds what local state officials...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...evil." South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun, revered by white Charlestonians, argued in 1837 that slavery was a "positive good" that benefited both masters and slaves (96). White Charlestonians seeking...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...that Petrie could analyze samples of soil from her property, so that she could prove, once and for all, what had been sprayed on it—and what was making her sick....
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...everywhere you need to go." A housing authority worker said: That was the biggest complaint that we had from the clients in that they were so used to the New...