"Aint that Something?"
...comfort for Dawn, and it's deeply tied to her family—it's impossible to separate the two. Most of Dawn's family lives in the region, but don't offer much stability—a ragged bunch...
Substantiation
...cup of names. He wires his paper that he's gone catfish fishing on the Tallahatchie, that he won't be coming home. * The defense says Till's alive and well on...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...and northeast Georgia. Atlanta in 1864 When the Union occupation of Atlanta began in early September 1864, fewer than three thousand civilian inhabitants lived in the city, a sharp drop...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...first cousins with the same surname occupied two sides of a duplex house. "The family on one side lived as black; that on the other side lived as white, and...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...space of the hyphenating waters between Cuba and Florida," are some of the most original and engaging in Calypso Magnolia (332). In reading lives on the hyphen, Lowe opens the...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...infant corpses and live human organ trafficking (141–144). Díaz, who teaches at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, calls this the "black legend" of the border. These grotesqueries are part of...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...local residents, however, leveraged their insider position to serve as intermediaries between industry and those whose property and livelihoods were in its way. When Tennessee Gas began to lay the...
Roadside Architecture
...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...The second is the belief that money corrupts the poor but elevates the moral character of the rich. By making the lives of the poor, the working class, and the...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...(New York: Johnson and Ward, 1863). These workers lived precarious lives—black workers more precarious than white, female more than male, old more than young. Workers' families spun "webs of dependency"...