Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities
...to the states of the "mid-South:" Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. I decided to photograph in all of the cities in those states that the 2000 census listed as...
A Mess of Poke
...heartbeat, dizziness, and possibly seizures, coma and death. Sure enough, according to Jean Weese, a food scientist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension service, "The roots, berries, seeds and mature stems...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001); Carol Anderson, Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle...
Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey
...she has published two pieces, Elegy for the Native Guards and Theories of Time and Space. About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father...
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother, a history teacher, Jake Adam York studied architecture and English at Auburn University. He received an M.F.A. and...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...rights reserved. The publishing of a particular photograph—for example, Charles Moore's "Firemen Use High-Pressure Hoses against Protesters, Birmingham, Alabama, May 3, 1963" (24–25)—could often lead to the reproduction of that...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...the center of historical investigations into matters of culture, education, identity, and labor. Across five chapters that illuminate localized Latino histories in Alabama, DC, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South...
Piedmont Blues
...York State into Alabama, the Piedmont blues region remains a subset within this larger area. Realistically, culturally-defined regions are fluid constructions that often defy firm boundary line. However, for the...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...far from consistent and in no simple or teleological way spawned the literary nationalism of the Confederacy. W. A. Reed, Augusta Jane Evans Wilson, circa 1890. Courtesy of Alabama Department of...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...reenactors were white, a number of African American reconstructed regiments, such as the Massachusetts 54th USCT, regularly participate in these events. The reenactment phenomenon has proliferated globally to include battles...