Watching the Surface for a Sign
...Phillips' use of autobiography and family history, investigation of the natural world, and the legacy of white supremacy in Forsyth County. Part 2: Phillips discusses “Brass Knuckles,” ambivalences of place...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...They provide our readers with references to additional resources, allowing them to learn more. An additional advantage is that Wikipedia is not behind a pay-wall. Sadly, many good sources accessible...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...understandings of citizenship and empire, as well as racial and class privilege. Mckiernan-González's work considers the medical politics of place, and the ways responses to epidemics reveal societal understandings of...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Crow as irredeemably violent and repressive. The ILD fought legal lynchings in the courts; its supporters—numbering several thousand in Alabama alone by the early 1930s—argued that the real fight was...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...indelible imprint on national and global culture (250). In the book's final section, "Bourbon Street as Social Artifact," Campanella attempts to uncover how cultural and social practice has constructed the...
Religion and the US South
...environmental, demographic, economic, social, and cultural factors of religious development. Spatial and social places mattered. Commonalities existed across social barriers but experiences varied depending on whether you were a Mississippi...
The Chimney
Inside the chimney my father built with stones we hauled from Six Mile Creek, above the flue, beneath the soot, is a penny I watched him press into the mortar...
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
James Holland, Riverkeeper: Environmental Protection along the Altamaha
...his old boat from float to float he recognized so well. Every trip was a connect-the-dots; he hauled up the traps and took from them the crabs he was allowed...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...already flailing American "marriage culture." Both social science research and anecdotal evidence back up the idea that divorce can have profound effects on all members of a family. However, this...