The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...the Court increasingly refused to require public school districts to use effective methods of dismantling school segregation. In 2007, the Court turned Brown on its head when Chief Justice John...
Writing Appalachia
...of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/2016802030. That dichotomy—the romanticized and the degenerate—remained operative through the better part of the twentieth century, with few attempts at complicating it. (Horace Kephart,...
1108 Dynamite Hill
...1960s movement protest, the hilly residential street where Drew grew up and still resides was a battleground in the fight against segregation. In the 1940s, Center Street was the dividing...
Encountering COVID
...went off in a completely different direction that surprised me. I think the excitement of knowing I was going to hear somebody else's story is what sustained me. Q: Who...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is on the Southern Spaces editorial board, and was co-founder and director of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University...
Burning bright, Tysons Corner, Virginia, 2009
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...with varying characteristics (i.e. skin color, language usage, citizenship status) used to demarcate Latinos’ “proximity or distance from Blackness.”4Márquez, 21. Women by the pool at South of the Border, Dillon,...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...overpass to disappear in the direction of the Mississippi, hidden by the green slope of the levee. Bridging complex machinery and a powerful river, clashing on the way with the...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...1–9. The dish, known as "'possum and 'taters," was one of many items of "southern cooking," which, as Diane Spivey points out, signified a "Whites Only Cuisine" during Jim Crow.7Diane...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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