The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...by ruling that most of the pupil placement laws for public schools were racially discriminatory in their application and that the South’s voucher programs were a violation of the US...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...explicitly racial terms and masked in ostensibly race-neutral development strategies, financial practices, and property laws. Many readers will be familiar with the types of popular and official resistance and racial...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...rascal who flouted decency and the law and who embodied the [ . . .] view of man as a wily being who relies on cunning to survive in an...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
..."illegal," I am using it because they did. But, the audience, I knew, would also include people like David Caulkett of FLIMEN (FLoridians for IMmigration ENforcement) and John Parsons. Some...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...is natural to any one thinking that it is pleasant to be one.... Once in talking and saying that in America the best material is used in the cheapest things...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...investigation exonerated the victims of any crimes, no law enforcement officer or member of the posse who took part in the atrocity faced charges for the murders. In detailing the...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...ecology of Louisiana's ongoing crisis—approximately one football field of land loss per hour.1Nathaniel Rich, "The most ambitious environmental lawsuit ever," New York Times Magazine, October 2, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/02/magazine/mag-oil-lawsuit.html. In the...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Presbyterian ministers of the region, including Richardson's father-in-law Alexander Craighead, James Hall in Iredell County, and Henry Patillo in Orange. David Caldwell's son Samuel Craighead Caldwell had a more severe...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...flowers achieved with a limited number of colors and characteristic dotted backgrounds in black or blue." More expensive than everyday fabrics, the choice of an imported chintz for a wedding...