Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...Díaz also adopts many of the categories and characterizations of "criminality" generated by government policing agencies.3The historian Paul Gootenberg calls this "talking like a state," which he believes can be...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...of the critical, interdisciplinary, and multimedia scholarship we seek: Busch, Andrew M. "Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas." Southern Spaces, August 19, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/crossing-over-sustainability-new-urbanism-and-gentrification-austin-texas. Conis, Elena....
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
..."when currents are changed by these canals and dredgings are placed along the sides of the canal, in many cases currents are stopped entirely … causing ... changes in the...
Whole Cloth Chintz Wedding Quilt [ca 1850]
...the local militia married Rosa Miller Benson, age twenty-seven. Rosa came from a locally prominent family in the same community. Her grandfather, Robert Benson, migrated to Greenville County, South Carolina,...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...size of a violation can make a violation go away—that whenever a disparity can be proven to be small, it can be considered no disparity at all. So, if a...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...policies can assure an equal opportunity to learn for the growing numbers of our poorest children. Education can be one of the nation's most efficient and effective long-term investments to...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...Her Early Settlers (New York: Robert Carter, 1846), 193, 218; Eli W. Caruthers, A Sketch of the Life and Character of the Rev. David Caldwell, D.D. Near Sixty Years Pastor...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...and Last Objects, Left on Porch of Evacuated House address particular issues of loss—the loss of a place to worship and pray; the loss of a place to socialize, drink,...
The Crowd He Becomes
...his News. The photographer follows every one, cocked and ready to shoot, but his lens can't catch them all so he just stands, tracing their paths, he just stands, lost...