"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
Review "I don't need a map to tell me where I am today." —Mike Cooley The Drive-By Truckers have always done their best and most arresting work about place. They...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...sided with the Confederacy. There were a disproportionate number of Creek leaders who had close ties to the Deep South: economic relationships, cultural influences, and, to some degree, plantation systems....
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...proven. Congress's amendments provided that, after considering a "totality of circumstances," a federal court need only find that a law or practice has a discriminatory result. The US Senate's report...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...will determine how much land is needed to sustain a given number of residents. SECTION 8. Allied Programs. SUB-SECTION A. Income tax incentives will encourage teachers and medical doctors to...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...Brickner, October 12, 1961, box 5, folder 8, Rothschild Papers, 1933–1985, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta. Rothschild was active in a number of liberal organizations, including...
Good-Bye to All That?
...going to take it anymore. When we closed up the polls at 8:30 p.m. and printed out the results, I didn't need a statewide exit poll to know what had...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...marquee productions. A writer in a highbrow New York review described it as "perhaps the masterpiece of the whole [guide] series." You need only thumb through the New Orleans volume...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...the Black Panthers and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) identified environmental concerns not on the agenda of mainstream groups such as the need for rat eradication and demand for...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...see enslaved people in history as faceless and nameless, victims of a long-ago system that has now disappeared. In such a situation, the nation needs to experience what we at...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...need to live in an era of global warming where every coastal community may soon look like the Bathtub? As Zeitlin said of Isle de Jean Charles, the place where...