Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...and lieutenant governor; South Carolina's house speaker; Texas' attorney general and speaker; and Florida's attorney general and president of the state senate. The Florida legislature has become the first state...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...The lesson to be drawn from this cursory glance at what I may call the past, present, and future of our Race Literature, apart from its value as first beginnings,...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...flow'r, Frail, smiling solace of an hour; So soon our transient comforts fly, And pleasure only blooms to die. — Anne Steele, "Distress," The Sacred Harp (1991), 32b. Song after...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...mostly by the Buddhist begging bowl as it were." These were heady concepts for a southern Methodist. Carol Vallier Berg, Copper Canyon Press Building, Port Townsend, Washington, 2007. What it...
Cajun South Louisiana
...so Acadians who came from Nova Scotia to the lower Mississippi River Valley between 1765 and 1803 adapted to the new environment. People who once lived on cod and herring...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Flores has most vocally claimed that bioregion should also be recognized as a precise and useful term for historical study. Flores asserts that "the first step in writing environmental histories...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...value. The deforestation that accompanied colonial farming practices allowed opossum populations to increase by driving away foxes, wolves, and other predators and by enabling grass and seed-eating mammals, such as...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...