Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...say there are five thousand Creek speakers left, but nobody seems to know where that number comes from, and many suggest there are only a few hundred speakers, some even far fewer....
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...ten years. Three primary factors account for this recent, unrelenting increase in the South: demographic changes, state economic problems, and a history of persistent poverty and low income. Several southern...
Failed Memory Exercise
...A place I can't forget, since its beams were ripped out, Numbered, and shipped east to some resurrection bistro Where one can cop a decent blintz and expresso now That...
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...appear on the map as dense blue dots surrounded by rings of pink. The map illustrates how elections are decided on an urban/suburban basis, as Lydia DePillis argued in The...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...Photographs (1, 2, 3, 4) courtesy of the author. That night, you return to the present. You enter Aqua, and there, in the blue lights cascading around the room, you...
Conflict and the Senses: A Review of The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege
...history as sense-making activity, not merely a litany of dates and deeds. Ideally, readers can feel the pulse of a given period, sniff the atmosphere, and see events in a...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...locale makes the decisions on the ceremony, program, marker design, and text. To date, nine sites have sponsored ceremonies in conjunction with the project since 2012: Baltimore, Maryland, Sotterley Plantation...
Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...prison in the state each year, the transition is less certain. Some will move into the only re-entry facility owned and operated by the state (which can only accommodate four...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...Miami's queer landscape radically change once more, with the 1959 Cuban Revolution and other Cold War era political and cultural shifts. Many bemoaned the fear of losing "Miami after Dark."6Capó,...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
..."when currents are changed by these canals and dredgings are placed along the sides of the canal, in many cases currents are stopped entirely … causing ... changes in the...