Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...levels of the local public schools. It also appears that we have been witnessing a long-term structural transformation of local economies in both rural and urban regions of the South,...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...across country borders in the twenty-first century. While each international outbreak has presented a unique mixture of causes and consequences, they also have had much in common. That commonality places a...
Julius Hartman
..."The low green valley that borders Ponce de Leon creek has long been noted for its reposeful beauty. "Ponce de Leon spring bubbles up at its eastern extremity, and the...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...Landing, and Jeremy Creek in McClellanville, the Deer Head Oak, River Road near M&M Garage, Lincoln High School, and Thompson Hill Playground in Awendaw. A fraternal organization of approximately forty...
Work
...changing headings on library cards, and cleaning houses, to working as a chair-side dental assistant, a secretary in an occupational therapy unit, and a counselor to prisoners in a minimum-security...
Off-Season
...belonged there, flowing like creek water below our bright leaf fields, then showing only golden stubble and root. You said I’d never make it swinging hammers and teething saws for...
August, 1959: Morning Service
...vanishing species, which it was, which all songs are, years before the stroke wrenched her face into a gnarled silence, this morning before all that she led us across Jordan,...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...whose family is scattered throughout the city and its suburbs. Professor Campanella uses fleeting biographical details in his essay, adding to his geographical, statistical, and historical evidence the heavy authority...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...legislature barred local governments from adopting stricter environmental regulations, reduced the budgets of regulatory agencies, and replaced members of the state's key environmental commissions, allowing the governor and the GOP...
Mapping Souths
..."nature" being "gone for good." (But it is almost impossible to conquer nature.) Mapping the South is always a situated venture and always implicitly narrative: a way of mobilizing space...