The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
Today’s post is the first in an ongoing series compiling links related to news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...fifty years. The exodus continues today as black and white young people seek out places with better economic opportunities. “Outlands” suggests places that are not just rural but removed...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...class struggle—and I could not. Because from the beginning of my graduate school education until today—that is, for the last 35 years— the majority of my teaching jobs have been...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...which at least purports to be about musicians, Desperate Man Blues is about the adventures and tastes of a collector of roots music records. For a large chunk of the...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...to children born in the United States if their parents are not lawful residents. A crowd of at least twenty thousand, almost all-white, roared their approval of Trump's condemnation of...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...of the drowned while teasing out the links between environmental degradation, those thrown overboard during the Middle Passage, and the migrants who drown while crossing the Mediterranean today. From these...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...particularly when it comes to "the help." Regina employed at least two African American farmhands in addition to a housemaid, each of whom appear with some frequency in O'Connor's letters...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...to the east, rather than the white neighborhoods to the north and west, reveals discrimination most clearly. Tretter argues university administrators employed a “racist theory of value,” which assumes “that...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...can run but you can’t hide forever!” America, we must respect and uphold “The Rule of Law.” Directions From Atlanta: Take I-20 East Exit 82 at Conyers-Athens (Highway 138). Turn...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...people even at a time when nationalism may be viewed warily. Lisa Brooks is also the author of The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (2008),...