"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...recalled his words as she stood up alone in an otherwise quiet auditorium: "If anybody got a problem with integration, it's here. And Virginia is here. And no one is...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...class of African American Muslims in Atlanta makes it an interesting and important city to analyze in a study of ethnic relations in the American ummah. Given the popular image...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...I'm writing a poem is to allow whatever falls into it to fall into it. And if I'm allowing everything to fall into it, then all that I know will...
Good-Bye to All That?
...a whole. But in some ways, the vote in this county is a microcosm of what is happening across America. When my wife, Jane, and I moved here part-time in...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...in Indiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas, and extended to the Pacific, with some populations in California.13Audubon, Quadrupeds, 125. The opossum—which is remarkably fecund due to its short gestation period and...
Cajun South Louisiana
...in south Louisiana in the late 1770s, and the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was a turning point in rising Anglo influence. Before then, there were seven times as many French...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Mississippi have not succeeded in liberating themselves from the limits set by the natural world. In many places along the lower Mississippi and its tributaries—including the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta—it might have...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...by itinerant teachers who were often self-taught in music (Pen 212). With a revived interest in church music, composers introduced new tunes that ignored European "scientific" musical theory and broke...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...as an English instructor on one-year contracts and living in a small, one-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Spartanburg. I still imagined I'd soon live elsewhere when I got the...