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A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

The Bulletin—December 20, 2012

...January, Tim Scott will be the only African American in the Senate and just the fifth to serve since Reconstruction. Scott is the first African American Senator in South Carolina's...

"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"

...was chosen as the Lamont Poetry Selection by the Academy of American Poets in 1989, and won the American Library Association Gay and Lesbian Book Award for Literature in 1991....

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...awarded the James G. Hanes Poetry Prize by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2013 he...

The Bulletin—May 15, 2012

...changes regarding prosecutorial discretion for deportation cases involving illegal immigrants which pose no threat to national security or public safety. The Charlotte Observer and the Latin American Herald-Tribune offer overviews of...

Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration

...service economy; music and cultural workers; sex workers; the Global South; African American labor history; Latino and migrant workers; gender and labor activism; and migration throughout the South. Please submit...

An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts

...North Carolina," was one of the earliest studies of regional variations in American quiltmaking traditions. Between 1983 and 1985, Horton worked with the McKissick Museum at the University of South...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

...understand herself and to survive (7:28). Question and Answer Session About the Speakers E. Patrick Johnson is a scholar, artist, and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of African American Studies and...

Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.

...his archival holdings in the African American collections at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Best known for artist books that narrate African American history in striking...