"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...
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,...
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...
"Aint that Something?"
...Gurney Norman's Kinfolks. Dawn's world is difficult, but not hopeless or humorless. The characters in Trampoline may be Appalachian, but that doesn't mean they fit neatly into any particular mold....
Mississippi Delta
...foreign investors began buying and operating Delta plantations; the British-owned Delta and Pine Land Company became one of the world's largest cotton-producing operations. All of these forces nurtured the economic...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...that all the stories worth telling—stories of love and betrayal, heartache and triumph, justice and oppression—could be found in one small corner of the world. Getting the stories right meant...
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...
Deep Ellum Blues
...connect us to the world of the open range and make us all Dallas cowboys. In this, however, we were probably little different from the world of the white suburbs...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...looks, as always, toward the natural world. He defines climax much as an ecologist would: the communities of creatures in forests, ponds, oceans, or grasslands seem to tend toward a...