The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...strongest examples of the contested relationship between nations expressed medically. El Paso Anglo and Mexican American elites depended on the exploitation of Mexican labor and expected the neighboring city of...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...children cared for, loved, and challenged each other with the hope of making the world a better place. An effortless master of what Houston Baker defines as "the poetry of...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...in poetry Part 6: Morgan discusses the tension between the particular and the universal Poems Terroir That quality that seems unique, as thriving from a special spot of soil, air flow...
Let Me Do My Thang: Rebirth Brass Band
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The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...recycled by December 31, 2020. The legal victory, secured with help from the Southern Environmental Law Center, is a major step forward in the protection of the river system, and...
Birdhouses
...drastically reshaped the landscape to make the two ponds one. The contrast between birdhouse and backdrop seemed significant, and framing it in the Holga's viewfinder, I saw sanctuary against foreboding...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...Great Migration. Between 1916 and 1970, six million African Americans left the cotton fields and segregation of the rural South for northern, midwestern, and western cities, changing the American cultural...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation” Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...first publication, a portfolio entitled 14 Pictures, fifteen images from William Eggleston's Guide, and seven additional images taken between the late 1960s and the mid-1980s. All are dye-transfer prints, their...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...himself), the study of Confederate literature illuminates "the still-shadowy relationship between literature and nationalism" by enabling scholars to explore a concentrated, intense effort of novelists, poets, and critics to write...