Letter: Blues
Those Great Lake Winds Blow all around: I'm a light-coat man In a heavy-coat town. — Waring Cuney Yellow freesia arc like twining arms; I'm buying shower curtains, smoke alarms,...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Edward Senior for a return home, away from Mississippi meanness, Edward Senior replied, resolutely, "I believe I could stay in Hell one year if I knew I could move out...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...It excludes the many immigrant groups that have made the South their home over the generations—Chinese, Lebanese, Italians, and more recently, Indians, Vietnamese, Africans, Hispanics. It ignores queer southern communities...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...of subordination in a way that was interpreted as 'getting fresh' with a white woman."2Reed, 12. "If bristling at Jim Crow's injustices were especially prominent in my consciousness," Reed writes,...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...of itself involves an infusion of city into country and vice versa. Sibley approaches the pastoral ideal of "the country" that emphasizes the "peace, innocence, and simple virtue" of rural...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...by itinerant teachers who were often self-taught in music (Pen 212). With a revived interest in church music, composers introduced new tunes that ignored European "scientific" musical theory and broke...
Cajun South Louisiana
...in south Louisiana in the late 1770s, and the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 was a turning point in rising Anglo influence. Before then, there were seven times as many French...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
Big Ten football has received plenty of criticism in recent years, much of it well deserved. The conference clearly isn't what it used to be, and Marc Tracy recently identified...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...listed in the 1848 inventory, so it is possible that their escape attempt was successful.11Perhaps twenty-three-year-old George Boman, mentioned in the 1831 Runaway Ad, is the same person as the...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...