The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...cultural minefield of cliché and hackneyed musical scores and visual representations that we've all worked to undo and deconstruct. Also hovering over the film, not directly addressed, are the drag...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...Americans from jury pools.1Powell v. Alabama, 287 US 45 (1932); Norris v. Alabama, 294 US 587 (1935). Carol M. Highsmith, Scottsboro Boys Museum and Cultural Center, Scottsboro, Alabama, 2010. Courtesy...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...students (approximately 2/3 of all US public school students) in 2008. Almost all districts in the study had individual enrollment totals of at least 1,800 students. See full report at The...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
...into the landscape of O'Connor's stories. The place is eerily quiet except for the occasional sounds from the auto sales lot p.a. system nearby on Highway 441. Once inside the...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...the beach as a commercial asset, exploitation of natural resources and environmental engineering of coastal zones and bodies of water for aesthetic and recreational purposes, and the transfer of public...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...government also released relief funds to individual state governments, although often these funds did not reach the people who needed them.1Rebecca Riess and Devon M. Sayers, "Alabama Governor Signs Bill...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...global connections. From "Residues of Border Control," by Susan Harbage Page. "Spatial Justice" will examine social justice in the context of critical regional studies. The publication of this series will...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...Altidor. Photo by Jerry Berndt. Courtesy of New York University Press. Crossing the Water and Keeing the Faith opens with a vivid description of Alex Jean Altidor's prominent mural at...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a southern office for the Racial and Cultural Relations Department of the New York-based National Council of Churches. For the next seven years, he was closely allied with most of...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...as the planners of New Deal housing legislation determined that racial segregation best facilitated stable housing markets, the planners of Oak Ridge agreed that accommodating existing social norms, including white...