North Carolina: A State of Shock
...enacted this year reads like a wish list ripped from the fulminations of Rush Limbaugh, Ralph Reed's right-wing Faith and Freedom Coalition and the editorial pages of the Wall Street...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...a national campaign to save the Scottsboro Boys from a similar fate, a loose coalition of southern radicals, civil rights activists, and white liberals fought to save Peterson from the...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...the city’s segregated hotels for most of his life. When massive resistance raged against civil rights in the 1950s, he boycotted his hometown, returning only after the passage of the...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...in literary studies: I will be rigorously un-social scientific today. My data set is remarkably small—three poems!—and my methodology involves a whole lot of close reading. I'm interested, finally, in how these...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...belief that all men are created equal."8Raymond Hernandez, "After challenges, House approves renewal of Voting Rights Act," New York Times, July 14, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/washington/14rights.html. "Bush signs Voting Rights Act extension," NBC...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...(1997). Currently, she is working on multiple projects about racial violence, trauma, and cultural memory situated in the period of the civil rights movement. Dr. Gwin also writes creative nonfiction,...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...and more stories of twenty- and thirty-somethings of my demographic—and by my demographic, I mean hipsters with MFAs in creative writing—moving there. Apparently, this is a trend, so says Richard...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...number one on Billboard's Pop charts and included "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica." Leavell recorded two more albums before the Allmans disbanded. Emerging from the break-up with his rock/jazz/blues fusion group...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina held rallies in April 2006 to back this growing immigrant rights movement. In South Carolina, this effort was led by a two-year-old immigrant rights group...