The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...for?" In Florida, confusion over the voting eligibility of thousands of ex-felons has a number of interest groups involved in a campaign to clarify the voter rolls across the state....
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...by friends and colleagues around the country as they read the list of far-right legislation that has been coming out of Raleigh over the last six months. Is it as...
Good-Bye to All That?
...struck by the voting unity of white working class voters and well-to-do retirees. In the western end of the county, retirees in upscale developments around Lake Toxaway joined hands with...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...Florida." Southern Spaces, August 11, 2016. https://southernspaces.org/2016/queer-memory-loss-martyrs-and-memorialization-southern-florida. Please submit proposals (350–500 words) or full projects to series editor Eric Solomon (seditor@emory.edu) on or before July 30th, 2018. There is no...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...bars and corner joints that catered to the around-the-clock work routine of the docks. This working man's seaport atmosphere originated during the city's founding in the Age of Sail and...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...taking a serious look, and the city chickens movement is gaining ground around the South. In 2008, Gulfport, Florida's city council passed new regulations that allow residents to keep chickens,...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...road in near Marks in Quitman County. The first, taken in early spring, shows an unpaved road heading out from the foreground and gently bending to the left in background....
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the "peculiar institution" and often prompted observers to come to terms with their own attitudes toward the human cargo they witnessed. It was a trip on the Ohio in 1841...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Helvétius, Œuvres Complètes, Vol. 1 (Paris: Lepetit, Editeur, 1777), 25. Author's translation. An abolitionist movement in the 1780s calls itself "Blood Sugar" on the ground that "sugar cane was fertilized...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...the ground, brown-blue-green of moss and mold on trees and cabins, and the bright/dull greens of grass and rusty rainwater pooling on the ground and in metal basins—blurs the pastoral...