California Creek, North Carolina
...Branch Road, California Creek, NC, 2002. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Aerial seeing of highway shoulders, California Creek, NC, 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. At the Observation Deck on...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...had lived there? Those Xs raised questions without answers, and although the symbol was strong, I filed it all away as a memory of Floyd. Almost seven years later the...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Birmingham News, and the Louisville Courier, to investigate case after case of racial injustice in the South and the nation. Her 1948 marriage to Carl Braden, the son of recent...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...measures have—with taxpayers' aid—caused many of the "natural" disasters along the Mississippi and created unprecedented potential for even worse havoc. Somewhat mistitled, Mississippi River Tragedies: A Century of Unnatural Disaster...
Negotiating Black Identities
...of racial identities in the suburbs through interracial marriage and college attendance Part 4: Dr. Lacy discusses the relevance of Black spaces and places to middle-class suburban Blacks Part 5:...
Telling the Raymond Andrews Story: The Making of Somebody Else, Somewhere Else
...wedding photos, family photos, travel photos, scores of newspaper clippings, publicity material, ID cards, VHS cassettes of television appearances. His life was in those boxes, tucked away but ready for...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...started tracking the disease in 1999. Over 80 percent of the cases have been reported from six states (Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and California) and almost half of all...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
...The Fire Ever Burning (2000, with Aaron Henry); Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement (2000); Captive Lives (2000); a special issue of the journal Southern...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...accused blacks of shamming (which some doctors even labeled a mental disease). Blacks tended to understand the causes of disease—whether natural or supernatural—as external to their bodies, demonstrating a lack...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...the most destructive disaster in our national experience when one considers the amount of damage it did not only to the physical and social landscapes of the Gulf region but...