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
...to Harlem (sans his white wife) allows him to be—temporarily at least—as his siblings are, black. Race, the poem suggests, is contingent upon the local context in which a body...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Northwest_Austin_Mun_Utility_Dist_No_One_v_Holder_129_S_Ct_2504_1. Like opponents to Section 5, Roberts cited increases in black and Hispanic voter registration and in the number of elected officials as evidence of how much the South has...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...Moody, Welty, and Walker, highlighting attention to the local Part 4: Gwin recounts how Evers’s death spurred Baldwin, as emissary to Mississippi and as reporter, to write a play (see...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...whose family is scattered throughout the city and its suburbs. Professor Campanella uses fleeting biographical details in his essay, adding to his geographical, statistical, and historical evidence the heavy authority...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...the historic Douglass Theatre Part 3: Leavell performs “Blue Rose” live at the historic Douglass Theatre About Chuck Leavell In 1967, when he was fifteen, Alabama-native Chuck Leavell made his...
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
...(2006): 448–449. While Embry looked for ways of connecting the two histories and time periods, others, of course, looked for differences between the two experiences and histories. Meanwhile in New...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...worried that his influence would deter vaccine uptake, especially because 55 percent of the country voted for him. Bolsanaro's sphere of influence remains significant. His lukewarm stance on Covid vaccines...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...The Great Delusion (Hill and Wang, 2008) and Larding the Lean Earth (Hill and Wang, 2002). His writing has appeared in Harper's Magazine, Lapham's Quarterly, and the New Haven Review....