The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...Steamboat Natchez, and grassy Woldenberg Park. Sitting here on a blanket on a sunny April afternoon during French Quarter Fest, it would be easy to miss that only forty years...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...affairs. The fiercely segregated First Baptist Church of Jackson counted several influential lieutenants of Jim Crow society among its active leadership and membership: segregationist Governor Ross Barnett taught Sunday School,...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...weight on one leg before a setting/rising sun—reminding me how careless it seems that the suns of so many have set while mine will rise again. The view of the...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...country has school districts with very high rates of extreme child poverty. At least two out of every five southern school districts in the study had a rate of extreme...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the sun comes up, there is no 7 a.m. whistle, and in the afternoon no 4 o'clock steam whistle yowl that marked off a day of work for the whole...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Country Road, Early Spring, Near Marks, Quitman County, Mississippi, photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay © 1997. See more at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery. Country Road, Winter, Near Marks, Quitman County, Mississippi, photograph by Maude Schuyler...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...Atlas of World Maps. Map by United States Army Service Forces, Army Specialized Training Division. Originally published in Army Service Forces Manual M-101 (1943). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...terms of country of origin and where they settled in the state), class, race, and gender. We chose people who had lived the "American dream" of achieving financial success, but also...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...His poems have appeared in various print and online journals, including Mid-American Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Greensboro Review, Backwards City Review, and Southeast Review. Interview with...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...online presentation from the University of Texas Press new Katrina Bookshelf Series. The book series is edited by Prof. Kai Erikson, former president of the American Sociological Association. Below is...