Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...and concealed handguns on state university campuses. A few days later, San Antonio, a majority Hispanic city, elected its first African American mayor, Ivy Taylor—Yale graduate, woman, and socially conservative...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...coast, were formally excluded from the beach after the Army Corps of Engineers cleared the mangroves and laid down the miles-long strip of white sand along the Mississippi Gulf Coast....
Social Justice Environmentalism
...Studying Plant Disease, ca. 1930–1943, Tuskegee, Alabama. George Washington Carver, an agricultural scientist, botanist, educator, and inventor, sought to ease sharecroppers' dependence on cotton by researching and promoting alternative crops....
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...reinforced many of the lessons provided during my extracurricular activities. Classes and conversations with Professors Sonia Sanchez, Bettye Collier Thomas, Greg Carr, Valethia Watkins, and Mario Beatty, among others, strengthened...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...virus responsible for yellow fever, August 7, 2013. Photograph by Alain Grillet. Image uploaded by Flickr user Sanofi Pasteur. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Unbeknownst at the time, yellow...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...minute by minute. The air was diaphanous with salty mist, like a veil. A finger of white sand reached out from Little St. Simons Island as if to calm the...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...1758 "There is no sugar barrel that reaches Europe without stains of human blood."3"Il n'arrive point de barrique de sucre en Europe qui ne soit teinte de sang humain." Claude-Adrien...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...in national surveys."5Nicholas A. Valentino and David O. Sears, "Old Times There Are Not Forgotten: Race and Partisan Realignment in the Contemporary South," American Journal of Political Science 49, no....
Birdhouses
...the distance begin to brighten, deep blue to something like green. Everything winged must be dreaming. —Susan Ludvigson, "Grace"2Susan Ludvigson, Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...poetic qualities of Ariel's Ecology. Leonora Sansay's travelogue, Secret History (1808), and a novel sometimes attributed to her, Zelica (1820) (in which the Haitian revolutionary Henri Christophe sets Saint-Domingue's capital...