States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Smith, 221 US 559, 580 (1911), quoted in Shelby, 570 US at 10–11. As Roberts wrote: "Not only do States retain sovereignty under the Constitution, there is also a 'fundamental...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...and San Francisco, where their visibility and numbers result in political clout and political influence. Greenwich Village in New York and the Castro in San Francisco were two models; pioneer...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...Seat at the Counter Faces Alfred and Dorothy Knox, October 14, 2012. Charles and Dr. Lois Moreland, October 12, 2013. Dr. William B. Shropshire III and Dr. Marian Shropshire, November 14,...
Quilting Conversation
...assistant in Photography and Folk and Self-Taught Art at the High Museum and managed web design, publications, and other media initiatives at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. She is...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...South Carolina's first congressional district voted to elect former Governor Mark Sanford to fill Congressman Tim Scott's seat in the House of Representatives. Last December, Governor Nikki Haley appointed Congressman...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...the 1850s—who produced mostly popular works and "collections" on Alexander McGillivray and William McIntosh—with the sanitized reflections of Governors George Gilmer and Wilson Lumpkin. Each writer asserted his own "version...
Public Health in the US and Global South
Introduction "Southern Epidemic: How HIV Became Our Problem," screenshot from Atlanta's WSB-TV coverage of the CDC's findings, May 6, 2016. Courtesy of Southern Spaces, October 6, 2016. Global patterns of development...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...Wata, the titular voudou figure who grants life and death to those lost at sea—also sanctify the victims of the violence their objects traverse. Through Julia Kristeva's notion of "muck,"...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; and Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles. First image of True Detective's title sequence, 2014, sequence by Antibody and Elastic. © HBO. If you have followed Southern...