Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...is read. Thus, while the passing narrative is common in African American literature, Alexander's innovation here is to emphasize its spatial dimensions. As the poet noted in a 2010 Southern Spaces interview,...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...excerpt) Part 5: Contrasts Walker’s location in a black neighborhood in Jackson with Welty’s location in a white neighborhood 3.6 miles away Part 6: Gwin locates Anne Moody’s work within the...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...personal experience of the writer, the appeal to insider knowledge, the individual interpretation—however well-meaning and progressive—is yet another gentrifying move, one that is both precious and consumptive, sentimental and displacing....
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...of and becoming friends with the late rock 'n' roll impresario Bill Graham and keyboardist Ian Stewart, the original "sixth" Rolling Stone, in 1982 Leavell was invited to assume a...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...I don't think that's attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this [Act]. I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...in the present crisis? In addition to studying health justice and equity in the United States, I have researched health policy development in Brazil. Segments of the Brazilian Black Movement...
Substantiation
...emerges, a child watching from a sleeping porch catches a rustle in the bushes and soon everyone is on the hunt while in the courtroom someone is wondering about this...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Without further ado, The Bulletin. The recently passed amendment to North Carolina’s state constitution...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...or their theological roots. "At seminary, they called it hermeneutics and exegesis," he explained. "I never took it all that seriously. I always thought it was better to reach out...
Rebuilding the "Land of Dreams": Expressive Culture and New Orleans' Authentic Future
...otherwise noted. For information on historic images, see Recommended Resources. Documentary footage included in Part 4 of plasterer and Seventh Ward resident Earl Barthé creating a molding in his workshop...