Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...and the Emory College Excellence in Teaching Award for the Humanities, and was a fellow of the Ossabaw Island Genesis Project. For more on Nancy Marshall's photography, please visit www.nancymarshall.net....
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
Review "By branding the South as the racist section of the country," writes Brent Campney, "those narrating the identity of other sections have found a foil against which they can...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
Review Toby L. Parcel and Andrew J. Taylor's The End of Consensus is a thoroughly researched, multidimensional look at popular support for student assignment policies in the Wake County, North...
Love and Death in Mississippi
Blog Post I can remember the first time I understood death. Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, early in the mornings, my mother would visit one of her home care...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
Howard Dodson, Making Art at the Schomburg: Africana Archives as Sites of Art Making (Part 1 of 3), 2014. Art making has been a critical aspect of the human experience...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
...anything. Her grave, pale granite, reflects in the viewfinder — a constellation of dark pennies beside a nebula of grass. Why offer an assemblage of withered weeds and pennies dark...
Runaway
Barefoot in the actual dark, I packed a paper bag And found the way out of my lover's house. I had only the glass coffee table as obstacle; I slipped...
Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
...entitled Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). McCandless has cleared that same bar with apparent ease. We can only hope that...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...This is not Jordan, only the river DeSoto tossed three hundred souls into, watched the water grow tall as they squirmed like dancing stones, watched the water dark and struggling...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...don't, don't because they know the younger vets shuck off these dark expeditions to me, thinking it's my job, not theirs, because I've done it so long I'm used to...