Mapping Souths
...points up the illegitimacy of southern secession. (Frederick Law Olmsted employs an identical logic in The Cotton Kingdom of the same year, claiming that "an arbitrary political line may divide...
The Black Belt
...held a variety of local, state, and national political offices. With the mid-1870s however, came the restoration of white rule. Then, "for a hundred years," wrote Selma civil rights attorney...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...level of literal and conceptual “progress,” we also understand that, for the enslaved, a predatory path unfurled. Pulled backward across the center at "Evergreen," we ask, what force carries us...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...His publications have appeared in Social Forces, Sociological Theory, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Social Science Quarterly, Sociological Spectrum, Narrative Inquiry, and The Journal of Comparative Family Studies....
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...problem?' Bransford: Speaking photographically, did you have some compositional strategies of how you wanted to depict the Refuge? Some images have very strong diagonal lines, some obviously have strong vertical...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...feathery anger might frighten him away. Self accusation makes sense in terms of the film's psychological economy, but it also operates in a mythical or cosmic register. According to Chakrabarty,...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...environmental causes have often participated in actions to oppose racial injustice, eliminate poverty, and achieve gender equality. Such alliances have been essential to the success of the environmental movement. "Negroes'...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...Change Their Sexual Orientation? 200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 32 (2003): 403–417. It added fuel to many churches’ fire in maintaining and extending...
Memphis, Tennessee images
...of Memphis basketball teams. Baseball Figures, Autozone Park Completed in 2000, Autozone Park is the home to the Memphis Redbirds, the AAA affiliate of the National League's St. Louis Cardinals....
Mississippi: State of Confession
...by their belief in sin as a personal moral failure (not systemic), the primacy of individual conversion, final authority of the Bible, and the return of Christ. On defining evangelicals...