The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...devoted to ensuring that the names and relations of the makers would be remembered. The number of quilts and the care with which they were labeled suggests that she thought...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...powerful numbers like "South Carolina (Barnwell)," a blistering critique of the construction of the Savannah River nuclear plant in 1975, Scott-Heron directed his listeners' attention to new political battlefields and...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...Numbers," CCM Update, March 29, 1999; and Lindy Warren, "Top 15 Impact-Makers in 1997," CCM Update, December 22, 1997. The only subgenre of white Christian music that remains relatively strong...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...means of destruction as our salvation. About the Author Patrick Vitale is a faculty fellow in the Draper Program at New York University. He is revising a book manuscript that...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...pursued neighborhood watch programs, cultivated a close relationship with the police, and were quick to resort to formal methods of addressing complaints (particularly by calling the police), rather than privileging...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...of an assignment for the Wikipedia Ambassador Program. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 3.0. Saltwater intrusion is the movement of saline water into freshwater aquifers, resulting in diversified habitat loss and...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...the pro-flag motorcades—drew upon a common Christian iconography that resonates deeply throughout the South. To be sure, the reenactors felt no kinship with the flag's defenders. During the two hour program inside...
Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
Logo, On Second Thought, Georgia Public Broadcasting. Southern Spaces author Karen Beck Pooley was featured in a June 16, 2015 interview on Georgia Public Broadcasting's radio program On Second Thought....