Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...Radical Race Policy," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 110, no. 1 (1966): 1–9. The US Supreme Court did as much or more than the other two branches of the national...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...and Keith H. Basso, eds. (Santa Fe: School of American Research Press, 1996), 19. I should note that in this essay and elsewhere Casey's claims are broad. He often uses...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...us that the best we can do in most cases is piece together bits of information about the lives of others. Given this incomplete knowledge, we're better off not passing...
Enslaved Labor and Building the Smithsonian: Reading the Stones
...from the stone quarries. —Zbigniew Herbert, "Classic."1Zbigniew Herbert, Collected Poems, 1956–1968 (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 141. Thanks to Allen Tullos for suggesting this apt quote. Carol M. Highsmith, Smithsonian Institution...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...Polikoff Proposal," Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 1, no. 1 (Summer 2006), http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v1/n1/4/. Yet, as Goetz poignantly maintains, de-concentrating poverty is not the same as altering the economic...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...thanks in large part to an information and awareness letter-writing campaign orchestrated by the Chicken Whisperer and the Atlanta Chicken MeetUp group. In Birmingham, a new organization calling itself CLUCK...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...a rolling basis. There is no submission fee or article processing charge. Visit our submissions page for more information. Southern Spaces does not consider previously-published work or simultaneous submissions. At...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...Her Hair Braided in Piedmont Park, 1996. Photo courtesy of Chip Simone. “Atlanta was struggling to redefine itself, and I was more intrigued by the nature of it as a...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Vol. 102, part 4 (Washington, DC: Governmental Printing Office, 1956), 4459–4460, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/sources_document2.html. Six years later, after making a name for himself as a local state court judge who refused to...
The Save All Quilt [ca. 1880]
...The statement "Made by Mary Louisa Snoddy" does more than just identify the maker. Mary Kate abbreviated information elsewhere, but here she wrote out her mother's maiden name, revealing that...