Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
Review In the aftermath of the Great Recession, cities and metropolitan regions were often portrayed as (and often were) spaces of economic turmoil and social upheaval. From December 2007 to...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...marriage gone flat, and a job checking out groceries, struggles with cocaine addiction. Everything seems newly rosy when she enters rehab and falls in love with a male nurse, until...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a walking cane long before he needed one for support. He once crawled through an airport security checkpoint on his hands and knees after the attendant insisted on x-raying his...
The Liminal Site
...books checked out from the Birmingham Botanical Gardens library. When I started, I had four or five general ideas, each of which stayed with me through the process, and which...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...Ohio; and New Orleans's Ninth Ward—locations to be checked off in early spring before the campaign turned serious. Selma and the Pettus Bridge signify victories by a people in a...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...barbarism which preys upon weak and defenseless women. Nothing but the most prompt, speedy and extreme punishment can hold in check the horrible and beastial propensities of the Negro race."51This...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...explores the contradictions of the 1930s and 1940s writings of the Lone Star regionalists (folklorist Frank J. Dobie, historian Walter Prescott Webb, and naturalist Roy Bedicheck) associated with the University...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...to Alabama not only with Mother Jones, but with checks for the miners' strike fund from his AFSCME local, and from the Mother Jones Foundation. The immediate spur for Dixon's...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...silent reflection from now on"13Fukunaga, "The Long Bright Dark." ), it serves as a check on the tendency to make glib generalizations, to be cruel with analysis, to forget that...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...marginalized Georgians. In order to receive national stimulus checks and Kemp's own "special tax credit," individuals needed to have filed and paid taxes for the preceding two years, a barrier...