The Black Belt
...sense — that is, to designate the counties where the black people outnumber the white. Black and white portrait of WEB Dubois, ca. 1918. Photograph by C.M. Battey. Courtesy of...
Good-Bye to All That?
...by 1 percent in Transylvania County. Hagan's defeat could be blamed on the links between the senator and president Obama. As her opponent and the dark money supporting him said...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 (2007) as well as No Ordinary Sacrifice: New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South, 1917–1929 (forthcoming). She is also coediting (with...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Deep Ellum Blues
...L. McDonald, Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion, 1870-1925 (Dallas: The Dallas Historical Society, 1978), v. Almost nothing, neither geography nor government, constrained the growth of the city, and it...
#598, Common Meter
...absent from the flesh, And present Lord, with thee. From Lloyd, Benjamin, The Primitive Hymns, Rocky Mount, North Carolina: The Primitive Hymns Corporation, 1975. Published: 17 August 2010...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. —The Tempest Wifredo Lam's The Jungle, gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 1943. Photograph by...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Removal Routes from James W. Clay, Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989). As Indian removal gets underway in the early 1830s, captivity narratives situated...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...1961. Courtesy of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying seven Freedom Riders, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), traveled south from Atlanta...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers for Mister Weaver 1. Black Warrior speaks The night before they came, I walked on my river. I had strange dreams: bloody shouts to the sun,...