Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...overburdened state governments cracked under the pressure generated by millions of newly unemployed workers, many in cities and suburbs. Businesses contracted or closed and municipal governments faced layoffs and cut...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...Sean Hill reads the poem "In Memory Hill Cemetery." Poem text. About Sean Hill Born and raised in Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston. He...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...industrial Louisiana in company patches on long-sleeved blue shirts: Diamond M, Gulfstream, Burlington Resources, W&T. I had seen Richard Misrach's ghostly photographs documenting images of my hometown: the salted cypress...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...they ferried across the Alabama River in the rural Black Belt. The quilters, known for their spectacular, handmade textile art exhibited in museums from New York to Houston to Atlanta,...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...health those activities offered. "[T]he color line in any guise was inherently environmental," explains historian Mark Fiege. The spatial configuration of cities and towns, reservation boundaries, Jim Crow segregation on...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...a heart hungering after yet more vengeance. For how many times has he seen the dreams of his youth destroyed? How many times has experience taught him that his good...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...in Money, Mississippi, in August 1955 and was lynched for it—catalyzed men and women into an irresistible movement for change. He's right; so many people roughly of Till's age when...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...and Princeton Seminary and Slavery: A Report of the Historical Audit Committee (slavery.ptsem.edu/full-report). Also see Craig Steven Wilder, Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities,...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
Introduction The True Image explores the history and output of Scotch-Irish stonecutters in the early backcountry of Pennsylvania and the Carolinas. For none of them do we have any personal...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...landscapes, was self-built by Black residents. Many residents were engaged in the timber and mill industries and located their businesses and homes close to the Tar River, built on stilts...