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...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...lamb, chicken, and catfish for federal food nutrition assistance programs, including food banks and school lunch and breakfast programs. This announcment is welcome news for farmers and ranchers across the...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...and shutting down the Department of Homeland Security as a way to defund reform that might provide citizenship to anyone not lawfully in the US. Hostility to immigrants has a long...
Palomares Bajo
...environment, and downriver: "A number of accidents [and leaks] due to faulty design and human error ... allowed high level radiation to escape." As with the collusion between US and...
A City Divided
...and well-to-do people of the city"; Peachtree Street, McElreath explained, housed "the nouveau riche and social strugglers." Surrounding the grander homes of Houston, Boulevard, and Jackson, "less prominent people and...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...solid enough to work with. Sometimes, we arrive at seemingly insurmountable standoffs and we have to find enough common ground to move forward, shelving some conversations and decisions for later....
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Farmers and ranchers across the South, Midwest, and West are struggling to bring their crops to harvest and feed their herds. Texas...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...and shotgun houses with their French, West African, and Caribbean sources; and neighborhood restaurants and family cooks such as Lil Dizzy’s (Creole and soul food) or Mandina’s (soul, Italian, Cajun...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...planning sessions, and have been taken into the confidence of supporters and opponents of the reenactment.1I attended and observed preparations for the Moore’s Ford reenactments in 2007, 2008, 2009 and...