Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the class at the top that enforces inequality and reaps the benefit from our work? If we are divided from each other, the injustices continue—the unequal distribution of wealth,...
"Aint that Something?"
...Fiction Since 1878: "Appalachia in the national geographic imaginary . . . has largely remained an essentialist vision of the region—white, rural, poor or working-class mountain people with highly specific...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
Review There's a gripping scene in Arthur Jafa's award-winning film, Dreams Are Colder Than Death, in which he pairs the image of a small group of African American boys acrobatically...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...the political processes are equally open; that is, whether members of a protected class have the same opportunity as others to participate in the electoral process and to elect candidates...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...chose the title of general, not king. Haiti also played a "noteworthy role" in Denmark Vesey's 1822 uprising (42). Paulus tends to depict planters as a homogenous class, not distinguishing...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...and showed us what lies underneath—a grim look at race, class, and gender in these United States. It is crucial to get this story straight so that we may learn...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
Review The present system of flood control in the Mississippi Valley is a compromise resulting from a long and complicated interplay among interest groups. The current solution to the problem...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
Essay A just-released report from the Southern Education Foundation—"The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation"—finds that more than 5.7 million children lived in extreme...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...lines and clubs; Carnival celebrations such as the Mardi Gras Indians, African American and Creole Bone Men, and Baby Doll parade societies, the Zulu parade, White working-class walking societies, and...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...University dissertation into an exhilarating path-breaking first monograph of importance for several fields of study. Wise also makes clear the extent to which Percy's race and inherited class privilege made...