Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...excerpt) Part 5: Contrasts Walker’s location in a black neighborhood in Jackson with Welty’s location in a white neighborhood 3.6 miles away Part 6: Gwin locates Anne Moody’s work within the...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...personal experience of the writer, the appeal to insider knowledge, the individual interpretation—however well-meaning and progressive—is yet another gentrifying move, one that is both precious and consumptive, sentimental and displacing....
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...of and becoming friends with the late rock 'n' roll impresario Bill Graham and keyboardist Ian Stewart, the original "sixth" Rolling Stone, in 1982 Leavell was invited to assume a...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...in 1980 still resonates. "At its worst . . . regional identification is an isolationist impulse." He deconstructs an essentialist mountain identity. And yet, "The political value of regional identity...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...sugarcane land, once a volatile but powerful economic life-force, is idle and in poor condition. Even with its admirable innovations in sustainable and organic farming, Cuba's domestic agricultural producers cannot...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...2013, http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/08/12/4232398/gov-mccrory-signs-voter-id-bill.html. "There is no moral issue. It is wrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country," Lyndon Johnson said to members of...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...I don't think that's attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this [Act]. I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...Crow as irredeemably violent and repressive. The ILD fought legal lynchings in the courts; its supporters—numbering several thousand in Alabama alone by the early 1930s—argued that the real fight was...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...that numerically impacted the weight of individual votes in one Irving district, the case highlights ambiguity in the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 that outlawed discriminatory voting practices, but...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...in any location, be it 1920s Los Angeles or twenty-first century New Orleans, is a clear indication that those individuals intend to reside permanently in that location. Moreover, rooting a...