The Bulletin—May 15, 2012
...election results. The New Orleans Times-Picayune is three weeks into a powerful eight-part series entitled "Louisiana Incarcerated: How We Built the World’s Prison Capital." Cindy Chang offers an overview of...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...and change by portraying the Delta and Bayou as regions imbued with mysteries that make them unique when compared to the more mundane modern world beyond. Boling, born in Greenville,...
Whiskey and Geography
...taxes?”10Sherwood Anderson, Kit Brandon: A Portrait (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936), 118. From Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World....
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...union; the "greatest generation" of World War II; "the workers who stood out on the picket lines; the women who shattered glass ceilings"; and "the children who braved a Selma...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...get to use in today's world. But the word that comes to this driver's mind is slow. I feel it immediately as I enter the roadway—not only my car decelerating...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...dying. Their desires did not fit into Old South romanticism. And they do not fit into the new version of history either, with its new romanticism, its world of saintly,...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...America Southern Part," 1818. From Pinkerton, J., A Modern Atlas, from the Latest and Best Authorities, Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires, Kingdoms, and States;...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Class Consciousness in an Indian Community” in Moors, Guatmala Indians and the State, 205-229; John M. Watanabe, Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World (Austin: Univesity of Texas Press,...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
...acts of everyday dissent and insubordination to the most weighty deed of all—the taking of one's own life. If we make choices, but not in a world of our choosing,...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...from "critical and contingent methods and theories" and "more precisely articulating the disruptive knowledge of subalterns." Doing southern studies is unmasking and refusing the binary thinking—"North"/"South," nation/South, First World/Third World,...