Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
...Part 3: Womack contrasts Posey’s stories of racial/ethnic interdependency with the contemporary reality in the Creek Confederacy About Craig Womack Dr. Craig Womack is an Oklahoma Creek-Cherokee Native American literary scholar,...
Theories of Time and Space
Video Theories of Time and Space You can get there from here, though there’s no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you’ve never been. Try this: head south...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...Flannery "The Enduring Chill." The Complete Stories. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1971: 362. This description —from the "red road" to the "cow pastures" and "pleasant columns"— resembles Andalusia, as...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
Review Early in April 2009 the Mexican state of Veracruz identified cases of H1N1 influenza that led, by April 22, to the Mexican health secretary's declaring an influenza epidemic. The...
Brushes with War
...knew it as a makeshift hospital during the Civil War, but at the gala opening last fall I found fashionable guests strolling the marble floors where wounded soldiers had sprawled...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...The implications of this trend are far-reaching. It indicates persisting economic hardship for a large number of families with school-age children, signaling that children who usually have the largest educational...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...religious schools are effectively segregated and exclusionary by race. For this reason, Espinoza constitutes a regrettable, and significant, decision in the Supreme Court’s long and certain movement over the last...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...of Louisiana and Mississippi, April 22, 2010. Envisat optical image by and courtesy of European Space Agency. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. With the ecological crisis, the project...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Ireland Convention, travel brought sizable numbers of European singers to each other’s singings for the first time.14A handful of Irish singers visited the United Kingdom in April, 2011, for the...