Six Yellow Stanzas
...me and kiss me, talk that talk. 3. I don't know how to talk that talk. I am visiting friends of a family friend. These Creole ways are something I...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...economy, easily the best among the 102 largest US markets. The city’s success became a model others sought to emulate. Eliot Tretter, quoting Andrew Park, observes in the opening pages of Shadows...
Zircon
...measured rate. The zircon lasts when mother rocks around have crumbled, worn away to sand. It keeps the fingerprints of isotopes from clouds of the original primordial dust, right here...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...about cultural fireworks. Conservative intellectuals and party leaders made a powerful critique of New Deal liberalism. The persuasiveness of these ideas is best seen in the actions of the only...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...slave's resilient and creative humanity, and the inhumanity of the institution of slavery. Most notably, Toni Morrison famously offered that "bestial treatment of human beings never produces a race of...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...the garden accessory company Elegant Earth, worked with Gainey in the 1990s and noted that the designer had a way of "making things look spontaneous. . .that were planned." Most...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...America writ large: did the “Mississippi Plan” become the American way? Part 4: Dr. Crespino analyzes the role of the scapegoat metaphor of Mississippi as “innocent victim” in segregationist politics Part...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...photograph suggests local black resistance, self reliance, and the ways in which people in Holmes County, Mississippi, guarded their essential and beloved community center. Throughout Freedom Now!, Berger provides revealing context...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...still wild yet don’t know enough to be scared so I never am that’s how I got these scars here. Anyway, I follow Sadie she’s about fifty and weighs five...
Geography
...Orleans— and each time we pull off the highway I see my father like this: raising his thumb to feign hitchhiking—a stranger passing through to somewhere else. 2. At...