Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...24,771, all the while having an almost equal number of Black and white residents. The guidebook published by Mississippi's Federal Writers' Project in 1937 romanticized Columbus as "a comfortable old-tree...
Palomares Bajo
...unrelated to contamination. John Howard, After school (left), Andrés (center), Cat (right), 17 January 1966 Street, Palomares, Spain, April 2011. Many in Palomares saw the jets blow up, many more...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...will challenge interpretations offered by Richard King and Bertram Wyatt-Brown. And in a powerful passage, he jettisons a critique of Percy's poetry as naive, nostalgic, sentimental, and weak, offered by...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
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...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...St. Paul, Minnesota, April 15, 2010. Photograph by Fibonacci Blue. Courtesy of Fibonacci Blue. Outside of courtrooms state sovereignty has been gaining new momentum in recent years as a part...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...RIGHT QUADRANT — Personal hazards. BOTTOM QUADRANT — Number of live and dead victims still inside the structure. ["0" = no victims] National Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System,...
The Liminal Site
...Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977), 3. Start of the raised vegetable bed, with Virginia bluebells lining the path, Carolina silverbell and wildflower...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....