African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...a critical distinction, however, between race and ethnicity that informs the study of race in America. One's ethnicity, unlike one's race, can change. The acculturation of America's Scotch-Irish, for example,...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...serving life sentences at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. In the aftermath of Tyler's conviction, outrage emanated throughout the country, from college campuses in Southern California to the street...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...vol. 3, Record Group 60, Washington, DC; cited in Mark Laurence Goldstein, "Capital and Culture: William Wilson Corcoran and the Making of Nineteenth-Century America" (PhD diss., University of Maryland, 2015), 30–31....
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and co-editor of the Southern Literary Journal. She received both her MA and PhD in English from the University of Tennessee and is the...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...to a twenty-three million dollar campus in 2000, paid for by the state of Louisiana.1This is the number my wife (NOCCA '04) told me when I asked her on Gchat...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...number one on Billboard's Pop charts and included "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica." Leavell recorded two more albums before the Allmans disbanded. Emerging from the break-up with his rock/jazz/blues fusion group...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...it can measure, define, or contain. I call such prejudice "vernacular" to distinguish it from another kind that is largely invisible because it is widespread ("universal") and hence perceived as...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...eschewing the language of "legal lynching." Even as the number of documented cases declined during the 1930s, the NAACP reported in 1940 that lynching had not disappeared but gone "underground,"...
The Bulletin—March 20, 2013
..."cold cases." A recent New York Times article describes the cold-case initiative, which was launched in 2006, as an effort to provide closure to both victims' families and the general...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...PLOS's criteria for gauging where a publication lies on the open access spectrum are "reuse" and "copyright." For PLOS, "closed access" means "no reuse rights beyond fair use/limitations and exceptions...