Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...Review's ten best fiction books of 2007. Most recently Pancake was chosen as the first recipient of the Barry Lopez Visiting Writer Fellowship at the University of Hawaii. This interview...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...to end segregation—before the fiftieth anniversary of the bus burning occurs in 2011. A racially violent past is best addressed not by erasing its traces on the landscape, but by...
Race
...look from an ivory spouse who is learning her husband's caesuras. She can see silent spaces but not what they signify, graphite markings in a forester's code. Many others have...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
Review Historians Ethan J. Kytle and Blain Roberts, professors at California State University, Fresno, have produced a brilliantly written and thoroughly engaging place-based exploration of competing narratives of racial enslavement....
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
Review "By branding the South as the racist section of the country," writes Brent Campney, "those narrating the identity of other sections have found a foil against which they can...
On Fair Use
...higher education. The United States Copyright Office outlines its "fair use" policy in Section 107 of Title 17 of the United States Code, enumerating "various purposes for which the reproduction...
Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...becomes a medicine cabinet whose magic is the reparative line from photograph to artifact to blood code that describes a history, something that can now be remembered; the depth of...
The Bulletin—August 6, 2013
...in 2003, they remain in the Virginia Code. A federal appeals court specifically struck down this statute this March in the course of a case where an adult male solicited...
1108 Dynamite Hill
Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265& Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...the Miraculous Escape of Mrs. Mary Godfrey and Her Four Female Children. Printed for D.F. Blanchard and other, Publishers, 1836. As such, the Jane Johns narrative (like various others)...