Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...road, "Poor Monkey's Road." Tour groups stop here regularly, as do college students on field trips from around the United States. NOTE: In early spring 2006, Seaberry started calling the...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...sisters pose for the camera as just to the right of the central triptych a little boy hoes a patch of bare dirt in the background. In the middle, Ruth...
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...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...the June 17 massacre in Charleston's Emmanuel AME Church? Wesley Hetrick, Confederate Statue Protest, Gainesville, Florida, July 9, 2015. Used under a CC-BY-NC license. Historical Background: Race and Roadways Long...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
The Black Belt
The Black Belt Traditional Counties of the Alabama Black Belt. In the 1820s and 30s, the Black Belt identified a strip of rich, dark, cotton-growing dirt drawing immigrants primarily from...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...trilogy, Winter Escapes (Fugas de Invierno, 2004–2009), his plays immerse audiences into the streets that surround Havana's Capitolio, to the parks, alleys, and theaters that provide spaces for illegal prostitution,...
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...
"Aint that Something?"
...attests, "The retardation around here staggers the mind" (129), and she describes a classmate's eyes as "dull as social studies, and she had no idea men had been to the...