"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
Review Benjamin Wise's book is a fiercely intelligent yet accessible biography of elite white Delta Mississippian William Alexander Percy (1885–1942), poet, pedagogue, patron of the arts, and author of the...
Naming Each Place
...the poem "Runaway." Poem text. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In this interview, conducted on September 5, 2009, during the Decatur (Georgia) Book Festival, Jericho Brown talks with Natasha Trethewey about...
Residues of Border Control
...out of the top ten states, excluding traditional destinations Texas and Florida, are southern: Georgia, Virginia, and North Carolina.8Migration Policy Institute, “States Ranked by Numeric Difference in the Foreign Born...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...which was displayed at the Jennifer Schwartz Gallery near Georgia Tech, also featured a handful of photographs from the Southwest and Midwest but the beautiful and, at times, somber photographs...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...Harvey Milk encouraged queers across the country to join him in paradise. Members and supporters of Atlanta's Gay Community parade down Peachtree Street, Atlanta, Georgia, June 26, 1979. Photograph by...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...from “Six Yellow Stanzas,” exploring legibility, estrangement, and connections to New Orleans Part 6: Alexander discusses black migration experience in her family, her use of direct address, and reads from “Georgia...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...ed. Elzbieta Gozdziak and Susan Martin (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2002). Economic motivations have influenced domestic migration as well as attracted immigrants. Georgia has the third-fastest-growing foreign-born population rate in...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
..."DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II." Southern Spaces, October 28, 2016. https://southernspaces.org/2016/ddt-disbelievers-health-and-new-economic-poisons-georgia-after-world-war-ii. Cooper, Brittney. "#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...nearly all fall neatly below the Mason-Dixon line. The bottom six states, the "least tolerant," in descending order, are South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. Of the twenty-three...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...complexity, and indigenous power rather than the inexorable westward march of European domination. For Dubcovsky this early South—"the composite societies who came to inhabit the colonies of South Carolina, Georgia,...