Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...long, somewhat controversial tradition in southern literature, one that Richard Gray describes as "a familiar path in Southern writing, in search of the raw and marginal, disrupted lives presented in...
Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley
...Enough Blues.” Mitchell: Yeah. Jim Bunkley: I [laughter] that’s right. He played that. Mitchell: Can you play that one now? Jim Bunkley: I, I know I can’t get that together...
Sowing The Seed Underground
Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...
Editors
...Grimshaw, Emory University Larry J. Griffin, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Adam Gussow, University of Mississippi Peggy Hargis, Georgia Southern University Tom Hatley, Asheville, North Carolina Iris Tillman Hill, Editor,...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...mile. He eventually made his way to the railroad tracks, focusing on that potent symbol of Japanese American imprisonment. It was by train that Yoshida and his family had been...
Editorial Style Guide
...Freedom Ride asks, "What color is an immigrant?" Use a colon after formal introductory phrases such as thus or the following, or for quotations longer than a sentence. As for...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...powers-that-be clearly saw the connection between my life as a teacher, a thinker, and a worker— between economic and intellectual issues—the connection that I had not made at that time....
Anniversary
...a rider on a bygone bus, taking the route for one's own, no matter what crowd, what confrontation. History, memory, we know the photographs so well we almost expect the...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...developments that led to federal marijuana legislation in 1937.4For prominent examples, see Howard Becker, Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance (New York: Free Press, 1963); Alfred Ray Lindesmith, The...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...that growth paradigms undermine the rights and autonomy of vulnerable populations. Shadows of a Sunbelt City is a theoretically sophisticated and critically thoughtful book that improves our understanding of the...