Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...mostly by the Buddhist begging bowl as it were." These were heady concepts for a southern Methodist. Carol Vallier Berg, Copper Canyon Press Building, Port Townsend, Washington, 2007. What it...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...states as the US South: Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Alabama, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland. Today the South is the only section...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...vast blue horizon and restless skyline. Anhinga roost in a nearby island, and below, any number of species of ducks, moorhen and long-legged waders nudge through spatterdock and duckweed. Common...
Julius Hartman
..."The low green valley that borders Ponce de Leon creek has long been noted for its reposeful beauty. "Ponce de Leon spring bubbles up at its eastern extremity, and the...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...empire abolished slavery. It seemed to be an era of emancipation. Matthew Karp's This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy joins a chorus of scholarship...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...race relations.2See for example, Joe Feagin, Free Enterprise City: Houston in Political Economic Perspective (Camden, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1988); Christopher Silver, Twentieth Century Richmond: Planning, Politics, and Race (Knoxville: University...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...man in 1914. Villanueva makes a compelling argument for Martínez's coerced confession as a state complicit "legal lynching" (80). In examining another incident—a murderous village assault—Villanueva stretches this argument. On...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...convincing one. Of great value, too, is his finding that this decline was a product of the connections between this peripheral place and external markets. Slavery in Maryland was inextricably...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...the historic Douglass Theatre Part 3: Leavell performs “Blue Rose” live at the historic Douglass Theatre About Chuck Leavell In 1967, when he was fifteen, Alabama-native Chuck Leavell made his...