The US South and the 2008 Election
...states. Gerald Ford of Michigan is the outlier, but he was never elected, only appointed. The prominence of the Sunbelt in the last forty-four years reflected the historic geographical shift...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...song on page 86, "Poland." This fortuitous image, spotted on the side of a taxi at the Gdansk airport signified for disembarking singers both the physical distance some of them...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...to secede and considered their actions a rebellion. But after South Carolina attacked the federal fort in Charleston harbor and war ensued, the United States government and its federal courts...
"Holding on to Those Who Can't Be Held": Reenacting a Lynching at Moore's Ford, Georgia
...encourage witnesses to come forth, bringing evidence that might contribute to successful prosecution of this six-decades-old cold case? Or does it undermine the work of racial healing and reconciliation undertaken...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...an effort to develop and establish means that perpetuate mutual respect; and mutual support for teaching and for the work, its production and publication An end to behavior, actions, or...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...significant number of requests." Further, all members participate on a volunteer basis, spending much of our time otherwise as graduate students, teachers, doulas, herbalists, and nonprofit workers. Over the last two...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Published: 10 June 2005 © 2005 Natasha Trethewey and Southern Spaces...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...supremacy, would best benefit the war effort. Oak Ridge social relations were decidedly retrograde. Its top scientists resided in well-equipped, detached homes in Knob Hill, colloquially known as Snob Hill,...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...we had our club meetings, and so forth and so on. Most of these homes around here are equipped that way."4Henry Herbert Bankston, interview by author, April 12, 2012. A...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...Back was an effort to demonstrate that the image of the cannibal was projected onto Amerindians or Africans to dehumanize them.16Valérie Loichot,The Tropics Bite Back: Culinary Coups in Caribbean Literature...