Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...look like other rural towns in eastern North Carolina, it carries significant histories. Shiloh Landing marks the point along the Tar River where enslaved peopled disembarked into brutal lives of...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...and state sovereignty. In response to Brown, the vast majority of the South's congressional delegation signed a "Southern Manifesto" in 1956 condemning the Court's opinion and declaring: We regard the...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...marketing was focusing on the film's white stars (there was also a poster featuring Michael Fassbender, who at least has a lot of screen time) at the expense of its...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...of 1960—which offered "protection for congregations' property rights" if they choose to break away from denominations that publically supported integration—passed through the Mississippi legislature and was signed into law by...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...shed as the house appears in relative contrast — pleasant, somewhat imposing, and upright. It is larger than I had expected and inviting despite its desertion. A small sign indicates...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...1980s, Austin was in a prime position to prosper. Tretter explains this process using David Harvey’s “tertiary circuit of capital,” in which “the growing significance of technological and knowledge-rent seeking” increasingly...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...cartographic representation in eastern North America—communication networks connected a wide geography well before Europeans arrived. The territory, however, looked dramatically different from that encountered by Europeans. Rather than power being...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...coalfields of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia, and east Tennessee. By 1994, the US Department of Energy anticipated a production increase of as much as 24 million tons...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...equivalent of the machine in the garden.4Local East Village, "Pylon-1980." On stage, Briscoe Hay and Lachowski's bodies and clothes create a kind of visual dissonance. Briscoe Hay wears a church...