An Oyster by Any Other Name
...J. Stoops, Triggers, Squirrelfish, Rosebuds, Almacocs, and Porgies, Houston, Texas, 2010. Confederate, Dollar, Gaspipe, Dryhole, Snake Island, Redfish. Names and narratives can be fraught and dangerous. We can use them...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...correspondent then expresses his judgment against affirmative action, or constitutional provisions for the reservation of a quota of educational and political positions for people from lower-caste backgrounds. "There are other...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR), a Pentecostal movement that has heavily influenced the Catholic Church in Haiti.5The Catholic Charismatic Renewal, a direct result of Catholic encounter with Protestant Pentecostalism dates...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
Essay Map of global ecoregions. Courtesy of World Wildlife Fund. Environmental history emphasizes the role of humans as an integral part of their natural surroundings. Ecological systems and biological diversity,...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...and space, he argues, though consumption creates a portal through which a listener can inhabit this audiotopia.2Audiotopia is Josh Kun's term. Audiotopia represents the visceral, emotional, and intellectual experiences of...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...Change Their Sexual Orientation? 200 Participants Reporting a Change from Homosexual to Heterosexual Orientation,” Archives of Sexual Behavior 32 (2003): 403–417. It added fuel to many churches’ fire in maintaining and extending...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...studies that question the extent to which empathy can counter racial prejudice—such as philosopher Stephen T. Asma's contention that human capacity for empathy does not easily extend beyond an individual's...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...for any immoral use.' By forcing Blacks to live in overcrowded areas, racially restrictive covenants 'imposed social disintegration, social pathology, and personal ill health on them' (47). As head of...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...can all have enough." Charles Reagan Wilson, editorial board: I have just finished Albert Camus's The Plague, which I had never read. It's a profound book. And his portrayal of...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...way to Muscle Shoals, Alabama's legendary studios where he played on several records, including Freddy North's soul classic "Don't Take Her, She's All I've Got." In 1969 Chuck moved to...