On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
Introduction Map of Major Indian Tribes in the "South,"circa 1750 I borrow only my title from Alfred Kazin's 1942 study On Native Grounds, an influential reading of modern American prose...
Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
...AIDS and the struggle of LGBT carriers to overcome persistent social stigma. Jesse Peel, MARBL Woodruff Room, Atlanta, Georgia, October 2012. Photograph by Bryan Meltz of Emory University Photo Video....
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
Review Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See presents a rhapsodic argument in pictures and words for the preservation, restoration, and reestablishment of longleaf pine forests across the areas of the...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...race, class, and the visual arts in Faulkner's fiction is examined in Waid's The Signifying Eye: Seeing Faulkner's Art (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013). In the interest of full...
Geography
Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text. About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
Review Rowan County Court House and Jail, Salisbury, North Carolina, circa 1905-1915. Courtesy of the Durwood Barbour Collection of North Carolina Postcards, North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...are in extreme poverty were in the South.2 The Southern Education Foundation's South includes fifteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee,...
Oakland Cemetery
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Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...in Atlanta, Georgia. He earned a B.A. at the University of Kentucky in 1958 and an M.A. in 1960. He has written for the Southern Education Report, Race Relations Reporter,...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...and Georgia experience tornadoes that, according to Michael Robinson of the Army Corps of Engineers, "tend to be more deadly than those in the Great Plains and Midwest." Tornados in...