Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...text of this essay comes from The Bioregional Imagination: Literature, Ecology, and Place (2012), edited by Tom Lynch, Cheryll Glotfelty, and Karla Armbruster, courtesy of the University of Georgia Press....
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...of the US South (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009); Ricardo B. Contreras, "The Nuevo South Action Research Collaborative: A Model of Community Engagement and Service-learning in Eastern North Carolina...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Palomares Bajo
...boon to struggling economies. Accidents in Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas had been mercifully free of thermonuclear explosions—and, it seems, of significant radioactive contamination. In this...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...campus. The land that constitutes the Druid Hills neighborhood was originally ceded to the Georgia government by Native Americans in 1821 and was subsequently surveyed and sold to white settlers....
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...later imprisoned in Georgia for his political activity, recounted his brutal detainment in the wake of the Shades Mountain attack. Birmingham police, he wrote in his 1937 autobiography Let Me...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...of the Caribbean: Colonial Georgia and the Atlantic World (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013). But Hubs of Empire is a remarkably well-accomplished synthesis. To successfully undertake a project of...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...a geographic fantasy, or (in Duck's terminology) "the nation's region." Top, cover to Leigh Anne Duck's The Nation's Region: Southern Modernism, Segregation, and U.S. Nationalism (Athens: University of Georgia Press,...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...Alabama. I'm going to fast forward all the way up until the American Civil War when Creeks had barely recovered from the traumatic 1836 removal from Georgia and Alabama. They...