Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket
...job-training and long-term job placement have much higher degrees of success. The route an inmate takes at the time of release often depends on the prison in which he or...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...Confederates and northerners sought to claim the popular song and invest it with different nationalistic and local meanings. Originally written as a minstrel song expressing an ambivalent longing for the...
The Border South
...complexity of life on the border. The idea of a border depends in large measure on a "closed" South, one sealed by a definitive geography or polity. Along the border...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...simpler minds of black women were also less burdened by disease-producing anxieties than white women, as long as masters supplied basic needs. Following on the work of historians such as...
Residues of Border Control
...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...(Florida holds that distinction). Residents of Fredericksburg, Virginia, long identified with the domestic human trade, recently learned, after MPCPMP presented Eltis's research from the Voyages Database, that their city was...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...scenes of troubling revolution. Near its end, Swallow Barn tells the story of the rebellious slave Ned. After a long period of incorrigible behavior, he finally becomes a loyal defender...
Antietam
...button, a bullet, a tooth migrating to the surface. We searched around. On our way back to the bus a boy tripped me and I fell— skidding hard along the...
Making History
...pull out spoon after spoon after spoon. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 © 2011 Sandra Beasley and Southern Spaces...
Another Failed Poem About the Greeks
...Greek, of course, and dead, and somewhere a maiden rattled in her chains. Published in I Was the Jukebox (New York: W.W. Norton, 2010). Published: 22 September 2011 ©...