The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...acreage on the Cahaba River as a "bonus"—as in for doing something good—for fighting native nations in those wars. And from the time of settling there in the 1830s until...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...the federal government, they may become independent at any time with a majority vote consisting of two-thirds of adult residents, at which time all federal programs associated with this Act...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...slowed and warped time. It had felt like days, or decades, or all time. As I drove away, these are the things I was thinking about. 1990 Worms ain't got...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...as modern pluralists or situational relativists when necessary, while retaining their identification with antimodern religious traditions that notionally believe in timeless, unchanging absolutes" (3). The ability to reconcile tensions between...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...reenactors were white, a number of African American reconstructed regiments, such as the Massachusetts 54th USCT, regularly participate in these events. The reenactment phenomenon has proliferated globally to include battles...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...or even by our own memories, but by a work of a single photographer, Walker Evans."1Kramer quoted in Tom Rankin, "'The Injuries of Time and Weather,'" Southern Cultures 13, no....
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...example, a timeline of oil production, entitled "Depths of Addiction," bisects its two pages horizontally, with period pictures of ever-taller drilling rigs arrayed above it. Below, the blue-black of murky...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...months I traveled from Tallahassee to Pensacola several times to help repair roofs, clear downed trees, repair hurricane walls, etc. During the down times, in between repair projects, I would...