Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...of Microsoft Word documents to SouthernQuarterly@gmail.com are preferred over postal delivery. About the Journal: The Southern Quarterly is an internationally-known scholarly journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Southern arts...
Deep Ellum Blues
Introduction The railroads made Dallas, Texas into a city, highways made it a Sunbelt city, and DFW Airport made it an international city. Never much known for making things, it...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...in North America, thrust together a diverse, yet socially stratified population. "Fame and Infamy" forms the heart of the book, tracing the reciprocal evolution of Bourbon Street's international notoriety and...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...among the first. What began as a local issue quickly ballooned to state, national, and international proportions. Today, the Little Rock Nine—black students who faced the wrath of white mobs...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...a voice, a mouth that drinks, and a set of "parts" that cool wind blows across in the night (11).4William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying (New York: Vintage International Edition,...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...by the poem's present tense is also, in the words of Martyn Bone, a "postsouthern international city" par excellence (Martyn Bone, The Postsouthern Sense Of Place In Contemporary Fiction [Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University...
The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...healthcare law varies across place. The McAllen Public Library in McAllen, Texas recently won a 2012 Library Interior Design Award from the International Interior Design Association for their 123,000 square-foot...
Huntsville, Alabama images
Huntsville, Alabama: Big Spring International Park Attracted by a fast-flowing spring, John Hunt, the founder of Huntsville, built a cabin here in 1805. Six years later, Huntsville became the first...
They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama
...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...