Frank Willis
...when school let out for summer and eat clam strips. Water- gate was where we stopped in a carpool one year to fetch the sickly boy for day camp, where...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...York: Oxford University Press, 2008); Charles Lane, The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, The Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2008); and...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...white supremacy—deserted and superfluous. Today, physical evidence of Jim Crow's imprint on southern state parks is hard to find, except in the racial demographics of park users, which remain overwhelmingly...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...depending on a government's interest or willingness to police or prohibit.2The best examination of this concept I've found is in Eric Monkkonen's history of police, which stands to this day...
Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered
...Berea College. https://www.berea.edu/cgwc/the-power-of-sankofa. This series asks readers to "reflect on history and understand as completely as possible how…racism, classism, sexism, ageism…effect our everyday lives." Referring to Natasha Trethewey's "Native Guard," McDaniels...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
...instituted a voucher system that would give parents the choice to use money the state had allocated to pay for their child's public education to pay private school tuition. Tuesday,...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the 1972 Clean Water Act, which regulates water quality standards and limits water pollution. Citizen groups...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...9, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/opinion/sunday/how-many-american-men-are-gay.html. The attempt to statistically classify and pinpoint the number of "gay" men "in our midst" is nothing new. Unveiling and unmasking our identities so that we can...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...stops feature musics with historical ties to the town and region, and present-day roots in the area. In Laurie K. Sommers’ Southern Spaces article, “Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...since he was Greek, of course, and dead, and somewhere a maiden rattled in her chains. Antietam We all went in a yellow school bus, on a Tuesday. We sang...