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...
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 ongoing management of the field and his forestry philosophy of sustainability. Live in Macon On December 3, 2004 Chuck Leavell performed a solo piano concert at the historic Douglass...
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....
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...with us, beginning by talking about Cuba's history of agriculture. "Cuba's first farmers were slaves," Miguel said, and because of this past as well as Cuba's history of development, people...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...describing how Pope had used his fortune to reshape the Republican Party into a reflection of his anti-government, pro-corporate policies. While supporters insist that his success is a triumph of...
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...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...later imprisoned in Georgia for his political activity, recounted his brutal detainment in the wake of the Shades Mountain attack. Birmingham police, he wrote in his 1937 autobiography Let Me...