A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...to save his beloved Jack Russell terriers. We did our first video shoot with Gainey in the spring of 2010. At the outset, we didn't know what we were doing...
A Mess of Poke
...sallet ("salad"), grows natively with astonishing vigor across the American South. Despite what Tony Joe suggests, however, pokeweed is not an exclusively rural species, in "the woods and the fields."...
The Carolina Piedmont
...in these rural communities and nascent towns. "The Piedmont is another land," wrote North Carolina journalist Jonathan Daniels in 1939. "It has always been a more serious minded land. [It]...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...ten camps built for detaining 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent, these two in Arkansas were set up right alongside the vital supply line. So these trains had become an infuriating...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...from the Doctrine's intent. The Supreme Court of the United States upheld the doctrine in 1967 in Red Lion Broadcasting v. FCC 395 US 367 (1967), but in 1984 the Court ruled...
Editorial Style Guide
...abbreviation has periods or includes both lower- and uppercase letters. Otherwise, abbreviations do not require the use of a possessive apostrophe. I.D.'s, PhD's CDs, GEDs, MBAs Colons Uppercase/lowercase: In running...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...to run away, and dysoesthesia Ethiopia ("rascality") which caused blacks to do "mischief owing to the stupidness of mind and insensibility of the nerves" (29). The latter condition was presumably...
Theories of Time and Space
...on Mississippi 49, one- by-one mile markers ticking off another minute of your life. Follow this to its natural conclusion—dead end at the coast, the pier at Gulfport where riggings...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...dumped overboard to drown - if no slaves were found on board there would be no imprisonment or fines. —Gwen Magee Expendable Cargo, 2010. © Gwendolyn A. Magee. Pieced, quilted,...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...Rusk, The "Segregation Tax": The Cost of Racial Segregation to Black Homeowners (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2001), http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2001/10/metropolitanpolicy-rusk. Rusk finds a "segregation tax" for black homeowners and non-black homeowners living...