Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...by way of metaphors of landscape and earth science. After our encounter and conversation in Wyoming, I reread one of Snyder's classic essays, "Poetry, Community & Climax," from The Real...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
Review Benjamin Wise's book is a fiercely intelligent yet accessible biography of elite white Delta Mississippian William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), poet, pedagogue, patron of the arts, and author of the...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...named Rose, valued at $700. The full listing reads: Slave Cicero 1,000, slave Sophia 300, slave Jane 400 Slave Jack 800, slave Rose 700, slave David 800, old woman 100...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Review When Hernando de Soto's army of six hundred soldiers reached the middle Savannah River in 1540, arriving in what is today South Carolina and Georgia, they likely thought they...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...blood carried "outrageously high" levels of the class of toxic chemicals known as PCBs, manufactured by Monsanto, and that the soil in her yard contained PCB levels "above what the...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...change, it is useful to review the opening-day activity at these schools, one by one. The eight had several things in common: All were elementary schools in working-class neighborhoods, serving...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...in the first half of twentieth century. Although best remembered for his memoir Lanterns on the Levee (1941), much of Percy's early poetry contains coded referents to Classic Greek tropes of man-man...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...Race, Class, and Urban Expansion (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001), 8. The widening gap between poor and middle-class blacks reveals the persistence of race and class inequalities in the city....
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...left), Portrait of Tuskegee airman Edward M. Thomas, standing (bottom center), Col. Benjamin O. Davis, full-length portrait, and Edward C. Gleed, wearing flight gear, standing next to airplane, and looking...