The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion
...the work's strength and its limitation. Fevered Measures ends with the intriguing subjects it uncovers: the resistant bodies, ideas, and spirit of the Mexican and Mexican American peoples who lived...
Public Health in the US and Global South
..."the scourge of the South," panicked urban populations, discouraged immigration, and disrupted commerce. The yellow fever epidemic of 1878–1879 that swept across the Gulf States and up the Mississippi claimed 16,000 lives. Malaria,...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...Dr. Marian Shropshire on Waterford Road in the Woodlawn Heights area of Collier Heights, November 14, 2011. The home of native Atlantan Dr. Harvey B. Smith, who lives next door...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...surrounding communities of Germantown, Tibwin, Pinelands, Buck Hall, and South Santee have a predominantly African American population of about three thousand. Most of the the families have lived in the...
Dirty Little Story
...She now lives near Iuka, Mississippi. This essay is courtesy of Kings Features Syndicate. Johnson is the author of several books, including Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming (2010)....
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...long, somewhat controversial tradition in southern literature, one that Richard Gray describes as "a familiar path in Southern writing, in search of the raw and marginal, disrupted lives presented in...
African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman
...assaulting White women. In fear and disgust, Adrienne moved her young son Norris to Philadelphia to live with relatives. She enrolled at the Academy which was not far away in...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...States, where the presence of Blacks has been significant, power and resources are allocated primarily by race. In the American South where most Blacks have lived and had been central...