The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
This week's Bulletin focuses on recent announcements in publishing and digital scholarship. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding these issues. The Modern...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...flag from state capitol grounds. Amazon, Walmart, and eBay restricted or ended sales of the flag and items bearing its image. The weeks since the Charleston shootings have also witnessed...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...Spaces. Screenshot of Santa Catalina de Guale, a Spanish Franciscan mission once located on St. Catherines. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. During a week-long visit to St. Catherines in March 2015,...
The Morning with Many Tongues
Readings Sean Hill reads the poem "Just as Sure." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "Nigger Street 1937." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "The State House Aflame 1833." Poem text....
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Louis Hollis was chair of the deacon board as well as a staffer for the White Citizens' Council and its weekly regional paper the Citizens' Councilor, and several generations of...
Geography
...of books beneath his arm. It’s 1971, the last year we’re still together. My mother and I travel this road, each week, to meet him— I-10 from Mississippi to New...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...Times Book Review as "original, startling," and by Publishers Weekly as "hard-edged and provocative," dealing "directly and explicitly with issues of anger, shame, sexuality, and injustice." Reviewer Joy Parks in...
New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography
...from elsewhere. Selfie at dawn on a trawl boat, Chauvin, Louisiana, June 2013. Photograph by Lindsey Feldman. A week and a half later, Lindsey and I took selfies at sunrise...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
Video About the Speaker Born in 1933 to Irish immigrant parents, Constance Curry grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where she...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...the plaque a few weeks later. Sometimes, the very existence of places requires memory. And, ironically, the city's economic future may depend on acknowledging this racially violent past, says Betsy...