Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts
...that the Court's conservative majority is likely poised to follow the lead of Associate Justice Samuel Alito, who in July 2021 wrote the Court's majority opinion reinterpreting the Voting Rights...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...nonracial rationale, the vast majority of the South’s private schools had become religion-based and remained nearly entirely segregated.2Ironically, the Court’s decision in Espinoza removes one of the few restrictions that...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...Oct. 13, 2021, https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1045518876. Salt Creek, meanwhile, tells the classic Florida story of transformation and rapine. The waterway formerly known as "Salt Run" drains lower-lying land, never particularly suited for...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...of Cuba—the region which this book focuses on—many were only partially free. They had paid a portion of the price for their manumission while continuing to do some work for...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...done up to this point: show us real aging, real maturation.4Obviously, many films have sequels (and prequels), but most aren't purposefully playing with the (dis)continuity of time the way Linklater's...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Courtesy of the Charles S. Killebrew Photographic Collection, NC Collection Photographic Archives, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Princeville was socially as well as environmentally vulnerable, due...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...less tied to place than the other whites in that tattoo parlor—that he is much more mobile culturally, economically, ideologically, and geographically. Reed's unmarked whiteness allows him to travel in...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...early to late twentieth century, Ossabaw's ownership changed several times, but the island remained largely undeveloped and sparsely inhabited. The last private owners were members of the Torrey family, starting...
Writing Appalachia
...say "Appalachia"? Geographically and conceptually, debate over this question runs high. Appalachian Counties Served by ARC (Appalachian Regional Commission), October 8, 2008. Map created by and courtesy of ARC. Merely...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...coverage. Media historians, too, have reviewed hundreds of hours of television news film and found it visually uninteresting. Television, some argue, mainly followed elite opinion; it did not lead. See...