The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...would invoke Section 3(c) of the VRA, a section that gives the federal government authority to add districts to the preclearance list if there is substantial evidence of discriminatory voting...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...meet at 1108 Dynamite Hill to plan the next moves for equality. Jeff Drew tells of his childhood in this space, how he spent nights listening in on strategic conversations...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...an intruder, and to set up a Louisiana only understood from the inside. He is also a mystical nihilist whose popularity gave rise to fans hunting down and interpreting his...
The Carolina Piedmont
...in these rural communities and nascent towns. "The Piedmont is another land," wrote North Carolina journalist Jonathan Daniels in 1939. "It has always been a more serious minded land. [It]...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...they died. Down in the Delta, the alluvial floodplain between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers in northwest Mississippi, perennially listed as the poorest and most unhealthy region in the country,...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005. From Dorothy Moye's Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition. 400-600 word proposals should include: a description of the major ideas, arguments, and sources for the...
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Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...early twentieth century South, Miller persuasively demonstrates, all kinds of people listened to all kinds of music, from minstrel show pieces, coon songs, and Broadway and Tin Pan Alley hits...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...Cleveland had a male vocalist in the gospel world occupied such a ubiquitous presence on gospel radio. Tunes like "The Storm Is Passing Over," "Lily in the Valley," "Never Shall...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...intimacy in which viewers are invited to sit alongside. It is an image used in the film's promotion: Mildred sits in Richard's lap, holding his head close to her chest....