"Aint that Something?"
...addiction, and oxy in particular, hit Eastern Kentucky hard. Recently, many users have been turning to heroin, the cheaper alternative. In 2013, there were estimates of over a thousand deaths...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...Jackson, Scott-Heron brought attention not only to Tyler's case, but also to the resiliency of racism in the post-civil rights South. This summer, as fans and critics mourned the death...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...and mainstream humanity. A parallel invective, not entirely dissimilar from that heaped on Dalit activists, is found in a very large number of right-wing commentaries on the current president of...
Audio Transcript
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Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...the Protestant Apprentice Boys of Derry defended the city against the monarch's claim to divine right. More recently, the Free Derry civil rights movement represented a modern freedom struggle. On...
Congregation
...from the car, take away the generator, the air conditioner, whatever there was to be had. He watched his phone for a signal, watched the sky for signs of a...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
..."how are you," usually spoken heartily. From Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) Reprinted with permission of the University of Nebraska Press. Copyright 1966 by the University of Nebraska...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...to reenact a human rights atrocity at the locale where it took place? Considering Reenactment: Between Ritual, Mythos, and History Before examining the annual Moore’s Ford events in detail, it...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...and practices throughout the Atlantic world. This system not only circumscribed the meager legal rights of enslaved peoples, but also placed special emphasis upon policing the "intimacies" (123) of sex...