Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...churches throughout the United States, Anne Braden has screened in Austin, Louisville, Lexington, Oakland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Vancouver with more viewings scheduled. Kentucky Public Television (KETKY) has rebroadcast...
Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...a scene from Louisiana Story, Weeks Island, Louisiana, c. 1947. Courtesy of Standard Oil (New Jersey) Collection, Special Collections, University of Louisville. For the United States growing into its role...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...and Keith H. Basso, eds. (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1996), 19. I should note that in this essay and elsewhere Casey's claims are broad. He often uses...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...South with Related Documents (Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1996), 19-20; and Steve Davis, "The South as 'The Nation's No. 1 Economic Problem': The NEC Report of 1938," Georgia Historical Quarterly 62...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...South Carolina's first congressional district voted to elect former Governor Mark Sanford to fill Congressman Tim Scott's seat in the House of Representatives. Last December, Governor Nikki Haley appointed Congressman...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...at all.”12David Nevin and Robert E. Bills, The Schools that Fear Built: Segregationist Academies in the South (Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1976), 11. Private and Public: Vastly Disparate Students White...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...sent one of the workers, John Sanders—who was Black—after water. On returning to the spring Sanders passed the water to other African Americans before giving it to Mullen. In the...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...and Refinery, Mississippi River Corridor, Louisiana, 1998 from Petrochemical America, photographs by Richard Misrach, Ecological Atlas by Kate Orff (Aperture, 2012). © Richard Misrach, courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York;...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...Salt Lake City, UT; San Francisco, CA; San Jose, CA; Santa Fe, NM; Seattle, WA; Tampa, FL; West Palm Beach, FL; and Wilton Manors, FL, have issued bans. Finally, the...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...of an empty basketball court. Playground and Shell Refinery, Norco, Louisiana, 1998. Photograph by Richard Misrach. Courtesy of Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Marc Selwyn. ©...