Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...the Caribbean" (11). These are large tasks that Calypso Magnolia sets and achieves to varying degrees. Lowe's work enters existing scholarly conversations in what some have called the "New Southern...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...existing state parks or designate new park sites for "colored" only. It wasn't until the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund (LDF) began filing lawsuits in the late 1940s that southern states...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...as the planners of New Deal housing legislation determined that racial segregation best facilitated stable housing markets, the planners of Oak Ridge agreed that accommodating existing social norms, including white...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...here from Baptized in PCBs, 76. Courtesy of Ellen Spears. Importantly, however, Spears's point is not that nothing changed. Rather, she shows how, over time, pollution exaggerated—and continues to exaggerate—existing...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...5 of the Voting Rights Act under the pre-existing coverage formula of Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act exceeded its authority under the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments and thus...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...(courtesy of the Decatur Women's Sports League).7Ibid. Lonesome Cowboys Throughout the 1950s and '60s, defenders of the existing social order sought to define the moral character of the city and...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...logged and sold. The operator will sometimes save the removed topsoil or spread it over an existing stripped site. The area is prepared for pre-stripping using shovel loaders and dump...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...in existing public housing and the one-to-one replacement of demolished units, HUD policies ultimately helped rid cities of public housing complexes. In the process, HUD began to relinquish oversight, management,...
I-26, Corridor of Change
...promoted as a safe alternative to the existing road and as an economic boon to the area. Old US Route 19-23 was a steep, winding, unimproved two-lane shared by school...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...just that—an image, a superficial obscuration rather than an actually existing reality.16Davis offers little help here, noting, "The Fugitives' rural iconography is made obsolete by the sound of the bulldozers building more...