The Bulletin—July 10, 2012
...healthcare law varies across place. The McAllen Public Library in McAllen, Texas recently won a 2012 Library Interior Design Award from the International Interior Design Association for their 123,000 square-foot...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...to factor significantly in the rising rate of low-income students. Similarly, a high birth rate among African Americans has contributed to the increased percentages, especially in the Deep South. Persistently...
The Colonialist's Gaze
Presentation Closer Reading: Three Images from the Presentation Panorama of Armstrong standing at the summit of Signal Hill. Image courtesy of Lanny Thompson, 2017. Standing at the summit of Signal...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynching for the state (6). Discrimination sign, Dimmitt, Texas, 1949. Photograph by Russell Werner Lee. Courtesy of Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin. If mobs...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...the latent potential of the field. Other things the Delta grew then and still does. One-of-a-kind stores, forever "un-chained," with esoteric signs. Autocrats, plutocrats, democrats. Ramblers and gamblers. Day laborers,...
Little Ivy, North Carolina
...regulations sign during grave removal at the Little Ivy Church Cemetery, Mars Hill, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Homemade sign erected over the Little Ivy Church Cemetery during...
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
...Reclaim." January 22, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/absence-i-know-i-wont-reclaim. Phillips, Patrick. "Watching the Surface for a Sign." April 14, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/watching-surface-sign. York, Jake Adam. "A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama." March 7, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/field-guide-northeast-alabama....
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...more contemporary concerns about human health, and she "crystallized the recognition that humans were fundamentally altering the environment" (83). Just as significant as this rethinking of Silent Spring and pesticide...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...made the doll out of nylon pantyhose. So in that year the doll and Martin’s shirt shared powerful affinities, both were articles of clothing stained with blood. Significantly, Jane uttered...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...rooms." As his creations garnered attention, he received commissions around the city. Although not formally trained in landscape design, Gainey, through self-study and experimentation, developed a distinctive style that combined...