Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...Tucked away in hollers throughout Central Appalachia, mountaintop removal has only recently received significant press coverage as the knowledge of global climate change becomes more pervasive and the scrutiny of...
Birth Right
...areas of the state are medically underserved, frequently impoverished, and suffer from higher infant and maternal mortality rates. According to a report by the American Hospital Association, between 1980 and...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Ottinger found lacking in the book: stories of people.5Ottinger writes, "The authors are unable to present a more coherent account of what change might look like, I believe, because of...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...in the American South (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004); Calvin Schermerhorn, Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011)....
Jake Adam York Interviews Sandra Beasley
...of me. Making History All I know of the Spanish-American War is what Virginia boys, kept safe at college, etched into the mortar with their pencils so that leaning against...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...a deliberately disruptive way." Interestingly, Gray uses this description of the genre in a book called Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism (2000) and...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...violence against Black people—and all other forms of systemic racial oppression—and demanding accountability and meaningful change. We support the Black Lives Matter movement, and we denounce white supremacy, police brutality,...
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