The Black Belt
...Geologically, the region lies within the Gulf South's Coastal Plain in a crescent some twenty to twenty-five miles wide that stretches from eastern, south-central Alabama into northwestern Mississippi. The unusually...
August, 1959: Morning Service
...spring pool where orange salamanders swirled and scuttled like flames. It was not muttered words that urged me back to that church, nor was it the hard comfort of pews...
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
Video Part 1b: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 2: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 3: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...the complex systems that the book depicts and thus forced readers interested in change to grapple with the fact that corporations are not merely wanton and irresponsible, and that fenceline...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...the sense that they can be taken up or forgotten again. Memory Flash is just that—a remembering and a forgetting. Memory Flash begins at 532 Wabash Avenue in the Old...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...in their school districts and offered alternatives that could reduce any adverse impact. In addition, SEF recommends that the White House, the US Department of Education, and other federal policymakers...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...essays, "Identity: Skin Blood Heart" and "Rebellion": What has been done in my name that I would like to challenge and/or change? Because this lecture series is the first act...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....
Sapelo Island Flyover
...Freezing is rare. Rainfall is about 50 inches (127 centimeters) a year, with the majority of precipitation during the May–September hurricane season. Despite the impact of Hurricane Matthew on October...