Gold Records in Deep Space
The more that traces of American roots music are turned into prized relics, the more lifeless the music becomes. Only by acknowledging roots music's ephemeral and fragile qualities do its...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...definitive account of these protests.1Raymond Arsenault, Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, Pivotal Moments in American History. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Ninety miles southwest of...
Anniversary
Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...have created a planet where children can be safe, but we have not. One in ten American children live in deep poverty; 2.8 million children live in households that have...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
...University of Georgia Press in 2008. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, and The American Poetry Review, and his honors include fellowships from the National Endowment...
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"
...flyer at the seventeenth United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention advertising "American shape-note singing," Winnersh, United Kingdom, 2012. In November, I remarked that "many new singers," such as those in Europe,...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...built environment and the experiences of its inhabitants—mark the city's particularities. Increasing numbers of cars, trolleys, buses, and taxis enabled movement between downtown and suburbs; rural and urban areas; "colored"...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...produces ecological disasters as well as economic, political, and social inequalities.3Ann Pettifor, The Case for the Green New Deal (London: Verso, 2019). The American version of the Green New Deal...
Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...advancing a fair, democratic society—affirmative action in higher education, LGBTQ rights, Native American sovereignty, the electoral college's essential integrity, and the voting rights of Black citizens. In some of these...