Birdhouses
...the distance begin to brighten, deep blue to something like green. Everything winged must be dreaming. —Susan Ludvigson, "Grace"2Susan Ludvigson, Sweet Confluence: New and Selected Poems (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...Keith Walker (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2012). Allewaert's rethinking of the swamp as a space of agency is of particular value for the study and teaching of many American literary...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...structures. Acknowledgment Thanks to the Ossabaw Island Foundation for their support on this piece. About the Authors Anthony "Tony" Martin is a professor of practice in the Department of Environmental...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...(42, 47). As the numbers and voices of newer residents surpassed those of long-time residents, the diversity policy long understood as "fair and beneficial to children of all backgrounds" became...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...selected extension and home demonstration agents, controlled information, adjusted acreage allotments, disbursed loans, adjudicated disputes, and, in many cases, looked after family and friends. County administrators had enormous discretion in...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...Church numbered among its congregants many enslaved persons. No traces of the Centenary Institute survive in today's Summerfield, other than its weathered and worn front steps, which can be just...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...migratory patterns render it difficult for many African Americans to lay claim to just one regional identity, the South remains a place of great intrigue for a substantial number of...
Quilting Conversation
...Her work is represented by Mason Murer Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta, and is in many private and corporate collections (Mr. and Mrs. Bernie Marcus of Atlanta, the Coca Cola...