Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...out that since 1965 Shelby County's officials and representatives had attempted to enact 240 different discriminatory voting laws that were blocked by Section 5 in a place where African Americans...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...One of the accusers, Ruby Bates, had recanted her original testimony and had even spoken out at Scottsboro Boys’ defense rallies. Representatives of Victoria Price—who had also accused the nine...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and the milieu in which country artists circulated. Meanwhile, industry representatives encouraged the mediation of hillbilly music's image. Artists followed suit by exaggerating their rural roots, at times performing as...
Mississippi Delta
...as formative as any factor in shaping the life and culture of the Delta. Native Americans lived on the land that became known as the Delta from around 1000 B.C....
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...liberal reputation, blacks lived under stifling restrictions. Whites in El Paso limited Blacks to certain areas, such as the second ward neighborhood near downtown. This could be done in subtle...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...In Jacksonland, Inskeep offers the book-length equivalent of his op-ed. He narrates Cherokee Removal through the lives and careers of Jackson and Ross, presenting parallel biographies. He charts Jackson's rise from...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...have created a planet where children can be safe, but we have not. One in ten American children live in deep poverty; 2.8 million children live in households that have...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...our own lives whom we love but can never understand completely, even if we live in and out of one another's pockets. Director Richard Linklater's previous experimental film project involving...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...term suggested by folklorist Michael Owen Jones, who contributed the foreword to this book). Laurel Horton weaves the story of the family's lives, using information gleaned from oral interviews with...