Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
..."what is southern studies studying?" to "what does southern studies do?" As the essayists in this volume strip away the mystifying assumption of difference or otherness, they show us what...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...a too-neat linearity at play—one that elides both institutional forces that lure writers and artisanal bread makers into poor and working-class neighborhoods and other neighborhood life-cycles that somehow remain in...
The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...living in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On March 3, 2013, doctors announced that a baby born in rural Mississippi had been "functionally cured" of HIV infection. The...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...degrees latitude; the border would then be drawn due west until it reached the Pacific Ocean. The original boundary was marked by hatchet marks on trees, strategically placed rocks, and...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Director, Min. Cassandra Greene, Director Ms. Hattie Lawson, Chair, Athens Area Human Relations Council Reenactment Timeline 3:00 p.m. - Leave First African Baptist Church for visitation of the Malcom and Dorsey gravesites. 4:45...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
Megabus Coach USA MCI 102EL3 #29030, August 8, 2006. Photograph by Steinsky. Courtesy of Steinsky. Last Spring, Edward A. Hatfield wrote for Southern Spaces on the challenges of transportation planning...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...studies that question the extent to which empathy can counter racial prejudice—such as philosopher Stephen T. Asma's contention that human capacity for empathy does not easily extend beyond an individual's...
A Turning Point for Richmond: The Virginia Historical Society's Civil War Exhibition
...his and later generations with the idea "that there was historical logic in the right of secession . . . that the South fought its fight gallantly . . ....
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...off by such force and forwardness, but almost unthinkingly I responded to her by saying that I had appreciated all that she and her family had gone through, that I...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...so intense that they are forced to acknowledge their impotence."7Katz, 57. It is the realization of this powerlessness that, in turn, becomes curative. Katz concludes: "Potency is the Lord's —...