Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...politics (examining how social groups redefine or reimagine political engagement; how space/place, public policy, policing, socioeconomics, or other factors affect political participation) Political representation (disparities between constituents and their representatives;...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...by a range of private associations, usually comprised of representatives of the schools they accredit. In most southern states, private schools receiving vouchers are not required to assess students for...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...the rustic name that the pattern had originated among early settlers on the frontier. For instance, a writer in 1935 stated flatly that "No Colonial home was complete without one...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...have them condemned again to lives as slaves. (Salafia doesn't follow through with Garner's subsequent trial, a missed opportunity, given what it revealed about the ambivalence of regional racial attitudes...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...and the Soap Creek Saloon (1973), encouraged a live performative aesthetic among a network of white, mostly male musicians (including Willie Nelson, Michael Murphy, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...the work's strength and its limitation. Fevered Measures ends with the intriguing subjects it uncovers: the resistant bodies, ideas, and spirit of the Mexican and Mexican American peoples who lived...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
Review As I write this review of Robert Wuthnow's compelling account of Texas religious and cultural history, I am struck by two seemingly unrelated yet telling events that resonate...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...long, somewhat controversial tradition in southern literature, one that Richard Gray describes as "a familiar path in Southern writing, in search of the raw and marginal, disrupted lives presented in...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...States, where the presence of Blacks has been significant, power and resources are allocated primarily by race. In the American South where most Blacks have lived and had been central...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...friends that lived down at the end of the street. I first got the word from him that they were moving. I knew that Jeff, the dad, had been out...