Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...simply, these poets represent race as emplaced experience, as a phenomenon "ineluctably place-bound."6Edward S. Casey, "How to Get From Space to Place in a Fairly Short Stretch of Time: Phenomenological Prolegomena,"...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...2008. Photograph by and courtesy of Kwesi DeGraft-Hanson. Place reverberates with the history of its unique past. "Place stays, not only in Rememory," writes Toni Morrison, "but out there in...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Views of Black Americans," Journal of Politics 68, no. 3 (July 2006): 571–584; Heather A. Smith and Owen J. Furuseth, eds., Latinos in the New South: Transformations of Place (Aldershot,...
John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival
...up pretty rough and a lot of them does the best they can do and they take it as if you take the worst you can find to make a...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...of its place and its people—those who have worked there as partners or staff, those who have shopped there, and those who have given their time to support the store....
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...transcend place, S-Town traps McLemore hopelessly and eternally in the place that he calls Shittown, Alabama. Although Reed ends the podcast with the story of McLemore's birth, S-Town buries him...
Slavery's Traces: In Search of Ashley's Sack
...connection over the telephone with a Middleton Place senior staff member, she decided to transfer it to the Middleton Place historic house museum near Charleston.16"Slave child torn from mom filled...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...a place," it does not—in other words, naming a place does not necessarily effectually "place" the place. Naming places or trying to name them is perhaps an inevitable practice on...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
Review Christopher J. Manganiello opens Southern Water, Southern Power: How the Politics of Cheap Energy and Water Scarcity Shaped a Region with a discussion of the drought that hit the...
The Battle of Atlanta: History and Remembrance
...as much attention as battle facts. Gone with the Wind, for instance, as a bestselling novel and blockbuster movie has shaped popular perception of the Civil War more than the...