The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...crime carried out by Latino teenagers who were members of a local Latino gang. In response, members of both racial groups marched singing "We Shall Overcome," while a Latina law...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...supposedly new urgent call for equity when it comes to the vaccine?"4Fabiola Cineas, "Black and Latino Communities are Being Left Behind in the Vaccine Rollout," Vox, February 24, 2021, https://www.vox.com/22291047/black-latino-vaccine-race-chicago....
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...are arranged to form a "checkerboard" design of alternating dark and light diamonds. Construction: Rosa's Log Cabin incorporates a large number of different printed fabrics. The dark palette is limited...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...in rapid succession..." (Charles Daniel. "Street Railways" Atlanta Constitution, (Sept 30, 1894) p. 14) Clipping: "In spite of the general depression which has everywhere existed, during the last few months,...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...discrimination. Instead, LaFraniere preferred statements such as, "career lawyers and agency officials who had argued that there was no credible evidence of widespread discrimination."8Sharon LaFraniere, "U.S. Opens Spigot After Farmers...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...its terrible beauty, its violent and troubled past,"2Natasha Trethewey, "How Seamus Heaney Influenced Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey," The Daily Beast, September 3, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/03/how-seamus-heaney-influenced-poet-laureate-natasha-trethewey.html, quoted in Joan Wylie Hall, "Guest...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...Pass. The sheer number of oysters in one place was notable, however the history came from the laminated nametags accompanying each sampling of oysters. Rather than numeric codes in fine...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...go out and photograph. Along the beach and up the lagoons the devastation was severe. One late afternoon I was photographing in the Grand Lagoon subdivision when a woman in...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...