An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2001). The Pagoda community in St. Augustine, Florida was one of the most famous,22For more information, see Lin Daniels, "Pagoda, Temple of Love: Practice...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...Celestine Sibley was one of the most read writers in the southeastern United States during the last half of the twentieth century. Her columns—some ten-thousand during her career—appeared almo*]}*st daily...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...That same year, black students from St. Augustine University and Shaw University staged sit-ins at lunch counters in Raleigh to protest the whites-only policies at Woolworths and other stores.4Jeffrey Crow,...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Southeast, and West Coast. He also gives plenty of space to African American journalism, sometimes folded into his geographical schema (the Chicago Defender is a midwestern publication, the California Eagle...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Flores has most vocally claimed that bioregion should also be recognized as a precise and useful term for historical study. Flores asserts that "the first step in writing environmental histories...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...after the Selma prayer breakfast and his Brown Chapel speech, as Obama claimed the requisite delegates to become the Democratic nominee, he offered a cheering St. Paul, Minnesota, crowd a...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...in the text."5Nicholas Stephanopoulos, "The Supreme Court Showcased its 'Textualist' Double Standard on Voting Rights," Washington Post, July 1, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/01/supreme-court-alito-voting-rights-act/. The third consideration on Alito's list is "the degree...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...upon them. She thinks about going back but is almo*]}*st halfway now. She takes a step, and the water rises higher on her knees. Four more steps, she tells herself....
The Crowd He Becomes
...his News. The photographer follows every one, cocked and ready to shoot, but his lens can't catch them all so he just stands, tracing their paths, he just stands, lost...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...Dan Albergotti lived in St. Matthews until age four, when his family moved to Florence. Albergotti currently directs the creative writing program at Coastal Carolina University in Conway. He earned...