Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...
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...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...serving life sentences at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. In the aftermath of Tyler's conviction, outrage emanated throughout the country, from college campuses in Southern California to the street...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...the country, founded in 1772 (known today as the Dumbarton United Methodist Church).2The church was formerly located on Twenty-Eighth Street between M and Olive Streets, N.W. (formerly Montgomery Street between...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
Review There's a gripping scene in Arthur Jafa's award-winning film, Dreams Are Colder Than Death, in which he pairs the image of a small group of African American boys acrobatically...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...of the country that, while intriguing and important, originally had little direct connection to the Mississippi River. While the authors pay attention to the concept of natural disaster and social,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...University's, cannot be disentangled from its enslavement of particular families. Our national imagination still sees slavery as an aberration, a detour, from the true story of the country. Many Americans...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2005). Top, Jones Lake State Park, Bladen County, North Carolina, ca. 1940. Photograph by unknown...
Artist Repertoire Index
...Step it Up and Go Sun Going Down Talk to your Daughter Tell Me, Rider That’s All Right Mama True Love Wake Up, Rider William Robertson Blues Bryant, Precious (1969,...
Inside Poor Monkey's
Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...