The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...Operations, 1927. Coast and Geodetic Survey. From Records of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, RG 23. For more than a century the federal government has—through its participation in flood control—shaped...
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...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...are featured on both the Southern Spaces and MARBL blogs. Hope, Southern Voice, November 9, 1995. Sketch of the Hope monument. Jesse R. Peel Papers, LGBT Collections, MARBL, Emory University....
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...that a number of forward-looking faculty members in literary studies and cultural studies in English departments would gladly promote our recognition that, instead of engaging in the traditional myopic behavior...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...and Marxist Theory (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1979), Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (London: Verso, 1985) with Ernesto Laclau, Dimensions of Radical Democracy (London: Verso, 1992), and For a Left Populism (London: Verso, 2018)....
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...historical, racial, and political—diasporic indigenous peoples can and do remain rooted in common memories, traditions, and pasts.1William Safran, "Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return," Diaspora 1 (July...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...1981);Young'uns: A Celebration (New York: Harper & Row, 1982); her memoir, Turned Funny; six mysteries, The Malignant Heart (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1958), Ah, Sweet Mystery: A Kate Mulcay Mystery (New York: HarperCollins, 1991), Straight as an...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...New Orleans, Louisiana, 1910. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-det-4a19873. "I Just Liked to Be in that Number": The Longshoremen Remember The transformative impact of...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
"I'm tired of these categories." —Patricia Yaeger1Patricia Yaeger, Dirt and Desire: Reconstructing Southern Women's Writing, 1930–1990 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), ix. In a recent New York Times opinion...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...