A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...Than Death engendered a great deal of conversation among scholars in Black Studies. The buzz centered not just on its stellar cast of intellectuals but also on its formal qualities....
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...studies of river development in the United States, but excludes some important work pertaining to the Lower Mississippi River. Maybe most surprising is the omission of highly relevant monographs by...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...of the struggling college and sent more than two hundred men, women, and children into the cane fields of Louisiana. Most of the families torn apart in the sale could...
Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death
...General William Richardson Davie's tomb dominates this Davie memorial. It stands at the east side, at the end of a path from the entrance on the west. The stones of...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...day, many singings are held in Primitive Baptist churches, though Methodist and Missionary Baptist churches are frequently used. In addition to the larger conventions, which persist in a slightly altered...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...big break most writers dream about. Brian Stansberry, Visitors stand next to a 400-year-old tree at the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in Graham County, North Carolina, October 2010. That fall,...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...the last three decades. Since the Census Bureau started keeping count, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, West Virginia, Kentucky and South Carolina have had the nation's largest rates of children near...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Freedmantown. Studio D, which Frank Campagna had opened in his art studio around 1982 pretty far east on Main Street (just before the old Deep Ellum neighborhood reached Fair Park),...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...device to contrast the industrialized Northeast with what he wanted to view as a pastoral, even Edenic, South, Eliot was in truth a Missourian, that most existentially challenging of all...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...Wharton, Director of Documentary Studies at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture, asked me to participate in a photographic project documenting the Gulf Coast of...