Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...has argued persuasively that the elegy is "a genre that enables fantasies about worlds we cannot yet reach, even as it facilitates investments in a world that will outlast us."26Max...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...of fancy.2Edith Mayfield Wiggins, telephone conversation with author, July 10, 2014. Hers was a childhood surrounded by art publications and crafts in various media, and included museum trips to New...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...and agriculture.4Fussell, 2. In the past, the river served as the main transportation route that linked regional communities one to another and then out to the larger world. By the...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...to the family. By some estimates, there are about fifteen hundred Bunker descendants today, spread throughout the world, although most of them have stayed close to their ancestral haunt in...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
..."a predominately white/First World take on things."12Massey, 165-66. Massey argues that the effects of globalization in the later part of the twentieth century "have undermined an older sense of a...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...D. Behnken, an assistant professor in the department of history and the US Latino/a Studies program at Iowa State University. In the quarter of a century after World War II,...
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...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...his "experiences of sexual freedom possible. His wealth allowed him to travel around the world, and that wealth was created in large part by black slaves and sharecroppers. His vision...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...before speaking. "My people were humble," she began. "They provided for their families. They tried to protect their children as best they could from the cruelties of this world, but...