No Place
Video About the Author Minnie Bruce Pratt's books include The Sound of One Fork (1981), Yours in Stuggle (1984), We Say We Love Each Other (1985), Crime Against Nature (1990),...
Writing Appalachia
...though almost everyone seems to try. As Douglas Reichert Powell observes, "Regions are not so much places themselves but ways of describing relationships among places. These descriptions serve particular purposes...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...up in Florence, South Carolina (including the influence of family, religion, and racism), the poem "Vestibule" from his book The Boatloads, the role of place in his poetry, and how he...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
...2011 by The University of Georgia Press. Other recent poetry and prose books include The Dead Father Poems (Horse & Buggy Press, 1999), The Best of the Kudzu Telegraph (Hub...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
Introduction Craig Womack: Welcome, everybody, to Atlanta and to Emory University. Welcome to a place where Muscogee Creek people have had government, jurisdiction, and land tenure since time immemorial—way back...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...city will remind you of your safety obsession folly." diatribe, he shares a concern for wanting to preserve the place he lives in as a place of life, a concern...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...The assumption Stephens-Davidowitz makes here is that this sixty-year-old man cannot live his life openly because he is trapped in a place of intolerance. Place becomes the diagnosed pathology. In...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...that were exclusively or almost entirely white men, enormous numbers of additional people participated in the War effort, including approximately 200,000 Black soldiers who served in the Federal army and...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...County courthouse before a crowd of 7,000 people, and the connections he saw to past struggles: This Immigrants' Rights Rally here in Lexington is also in a historic place because...