The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...current educational policies and practices at every level on children in extreme poverty. These children exist in significant numbers in school districts in every region and state in the country....
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...of the journal's redesign and migration to Drupal 7. Updates include image and video adjustments, as well as revised recommended resources and related publications. For access to the original layout, paste...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...specializes in work that documents diverse, underrepresented voices and that balances community goals with individual artistic expression. The new director should have significant experience as a practitioner, teacher, and leader...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...lowlands. In contrast, blacks were viewed as admirably adapted for it by providential design or the experience of living in Africa for millennia. Place—climate and landscape—was crucial to comprehending southern...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
"Made by Mary Louisa Snoddy Black—‘The Tulip’ design. Cousin Theresa Snoddy helped quilt it." History: The Tulip was one of the most popular appliqué patterns in the Carolina upcountry during...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...own histories. While traditional migrant destinations such as Miami, Los Angeles, or New York loom large in demography and popular consciousness, many locales have significant and diverse foreign-born populations. “The...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...symbolic significance for many infrequent visitors and residents alike has acted as both a blessing and a curse. Watts and Porter offer grounded theory as well, encouraging creolization and diaspora...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...studies offerings and presenting significant new scholarship. We encourage scholars to submit panels that engage with ideas of space and place. Below is the SLSA's call for panels. The Many...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Hutchison instead offers a number of "themes"—all significant and important—that emerge from Apples and Ashes, including the transnational nature of Confederate literature, the cosmopolitan aspirations of Confederate writers, and the...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...The border between the two states was drawn significantly farther to the north (beginning on the coast at Cape Fear) than the colonial border of 1746 represented above in which...