Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...Oklahoma twisters. While the United States experiences more tornadoes than anywhere else on earth, these storms also occur further south of the infamous Tornado Alley. Parts of Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama,...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...from the State of Florida, and numerous Knight Foundation faculty development grants. His photographs have been published in numerous magazines and exhibited throughout the United States. His most recent project,...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...places on petitioners’ exercise of their religious beliefs.”5Bob Jones Univ. v. United States, 461 U.S. 574 (1983). But barely a year after the Bob Jones decision, the Supreme Court slammed...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...in the Americas: Amazonia, the “Great Dismal Swamp” at the borders of Virginia and North Carolina, and Appalachia. For comparatists with one foot in the United States and/or the southern...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...to action. Mayorga-Gallo argues that statistical integration should not be an ultimate goal for researchers or policy makers. The relationship between proximity and equity is not fixed. Instead, diversity can...
Good-Bye to All That?
...of the country. That same policy of "Negro-Democratic identification," he added, would attract disenchanted white working class voters in the North as well.1Kevin P. Philips, The Emerging Republican Majority (New Rochelle,...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...that requires higher skills and knowledge from all who seek a decent living and a good life. People and policymakers must realize that their future and their grandchildren's future are...
The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...Statistics from The Sentencing Project demonstrate the racial disparities documented by Chang. A case being heard in Charlotte, North Carolina’s Immigration Court today will demonstrate the limits of recent policy...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...and Technology Camp) Feminisms South. On the first day of our unconference we edited and wrote Wikipedia articles along with others across the United States, particularly at THATCamp Feminisms West...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...devastating and troubling account of blue-collar Americans and a portrait of the sorry state of public policy, but with a hopefulness about what needs to be done. I'm enjoying selectively...