Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...of the United States.5Jack P. Greene, "Colonial History and National History: Reflections on a Continuing Problem," William and Mary Quarterly, Third Series, 64, no. 2 (January 1, 2007): 235–250. Adopting this...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...past and the resilience of community. "Break[ing] That School In" Virginia began high school at South Cobb High, a formerly all-white high school which was already desegregating.8Until the county schools...
Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...by Cynthia Scott. © Cynthia Scott. Mann was on vacation when the storm struck on August 29, 2005, so, like viewers all over the world, he watched television coverage of...
Writing Appalachia
...people, albeit couched within the all-too-familiar hillbilly stereotypes. Kenneth, from Stone Mountain, Georgia, is unfailingly cheerful, kind, and honest. He is also misogynistic and religiously narrow-minded. He rejects science and...
Bodies and Souls
...school, I decided to return home to Mississippi and approach the topic of rural healthcare. I grew up in Canton, Mississippi—a few hours drive from Jonestown. My first film, Waking in...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...prepared by Minnie Bruce Pratt. Text may not exactly correspond to the video recording of Pratt's lecture available on Southern Spaces. © 2004 Minnie Bruce Pratt and Southern Spaces ...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...in April 1865.3James M. McPherson, Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief (New York: The Penguin Press, 2014), 205; Brian Holden Reid, The Scourge of War: The Life of...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the state.) The same pattern appeared in the precinct encompassing Connestee Falls, the large middle/upper-middle class gated retiree community a few miles south of Brevard. The final element cementing this...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...cast their ballots.8Hearings before the Subcommittee Number 5 of the Judiciary Committee, House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, on H.R. 6400, March 18, 19, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, and April 1,...
The Crowd He Becomes
...the bombed-out church, minutes after, a face he's seen before, flash on the shards of phone-booths and broken windows he'll follow through the horrid and the horrified while the cops...