Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...explore what happens after someone is released from prison. We reached out to the Foundry, a private, faith-based re-entry facility for men in Bessemer, a city adjoining Birmingham. Over the...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...that literature unimportant. Quite the contrary. The paucity and transience of Confederate literature, he contends, is its great virtue as an object of study, for it "allows us to trace...
The Border South
...it turns out, stood right on the border on the Ohio River: Jefferson County with over 10,000 enslaved persons. The Border, however, was also home to the largest numbers of...
Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance
...find relief from the din and confusion of the city, during the long, hot summer. When the gates of the park are opened wide for the thousands of visitors they...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...led the Cherokee Nation's resistance to removal, a campaign fought on multiple fronts: on Native lands, in political arenas, in the local and national press, and in federal court. When...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...and/or urban; as a single region, or as multiple regions, e.g. the Mountain South, Deep South; as part of the Caribbean, Gulf Coast, and/or Atlantic World; and as a region...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...shows—slavery's flexibility was a sign of its continuing strength, Grivno argues that in northern Maryland slavery's increasing plasticity was a mark of its decline.1Jonathan D. Martin, Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...there are Women's Studies, Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/ Transgender Studies, and Creative Writing. She lives with her partner, transgender activist and writer Leslie Feinberg, in Jersey City, New Jersey. For many years when...
How I Shed My Skin
...who spoke back to him with such confidence) has conspicuously dropped out of the narrative, even as Grimsley documents a tentative multiracial circle of friends. At Jones Senior High, black...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008),...