The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...quarrels with his "bosom friend [ . . . ] Joe Harper" (55). Tom and Joe "were sworn friends all the week and embattled enemies on Saturdays" (55). For Twain,...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...(October 2002), table 3, "Farm Operators in the US by Race, 1900 to 1997," 24. During the 1920s this ownership arc peaked and turned downward, influenced by the march of...
When the Border Crossed Me
...of helpers I'd found for one or two days a week earlier in the summer—three high school students and occasionally one of their grandmas who drove them to the farm—had...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...Literature 46.1 (March 1974): 56. Like the "stinger" of Christ lodged in Hazel Motes' mother's head, O'Connor demonstrates "that the violence of rejection in the modern world demands an equal violence...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Movement of the 1960s, including voter registration drives in Mississippi and Alabama, the March on Washington, and establishing citizenship schools in the South.1David Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King,...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...became more entrepreneurial in attracting investment and generating revenues.5David Harvey, “From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late Capitalism,” Geografiska Annaler B 71.1 (1989): 3–17. Texas, looking to...
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
...Race Women (University of Illinois Press, May 2017) and Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower (St. Martin’s, February 2018). Her work explores Black women's intellectual history, Black feminist thought, and race...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...and merchants."6Thomas Bassett and Philip Porter, "'From the Best Authorities': The Mountains of Kong in the Cartography of West Africa." The Journal of African History 32, no. 3 (1991): 367....
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...trans—live in a world shaped by the queer past. Front page of the March 1985 issue of Skip Two Periods, Roanoke, Virginia. This quarterly newsletter was published by the Roanoke-based...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
Video and Essay https://vimeo.com/391985688 Ossabaw Island is a barrier island on the Georgia coast. The island, which trends northeast–southwest, is about 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) long and 10.5 kilometers (6.6...