Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Amendments of Section 2 and Minority Representation," in Controversies in Minority Voting, ed. Bernard Grofman and Chandler Davidson (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1992), 70. Also see Drew Days, "How the...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...about "re-viewing memory, internalized perception, blocks of inner energies, dreams, the leaf-fall of day-to-day consciousness." This activity "liberates the energy of our own sense-detritus."6Ibid., 174. Cover of Earth House Hold...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...on National Public Radio, asserts: "Basically, it was blood sugar . . . like we talk about blood diamonds today, there were pamphlets saying this sugar has blood on its...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...everyday operation of the store, Linda drew on her experience with her consciousness-raising group, while both women drew on their experience doing "contact work." Linda explains that to do "contact...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...the case of the Lumbee community, we didn't experience the geographic displacement that so many other tribes did in the Southeast, so today we live next to the people whose...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman A popular tourist attraction in New Orleans today is the "Moonwalk," a brick-paved promenade stretching along the Mississippi riverfront from the Covention...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...November 2004. In the early twenty-first century, Poor Monkey’s is only reliably open Thursday nights, starting around 8:30 and closing in the early hours of Friday morning. This is the...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
The largest proportion of LGBTQ+ Americans—thirty-five percent—live in the southeastern states from Maryland and West Virginia down to Texas and Oklahoma.1Amira Hasenbush, Andrew R. Flores, Angeliki Kastanis, Brad Sears, and...
A City Divided
...around the corner on Howell. To Jordan, "This ward was the elite section of its day."2Quoted in Michael L. Porter, "Black Atlanta: An Interdisciplinary Study of Blacks on the East Side of...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...in everyday life" (20).4For other studies of the Haitian Revolution's impact on the United States see Ashli White, Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early Republic (Baltimore, MD:...