New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...Asian and Pacific Islander, Native American and Alaskan Native, or Multi-racial. The continual increase in African American enrollment and the surge in Latino enrollment have led to a non-white majority...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...in voting laws. In 1972, Texas, Arizona, Alaska, and a few local jurisdictions in five other states were added due to more recent voting rights problems.1For more information about covered...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...and you have been praised by interviewers and reviewers for the authenticity of your dialogue. So it must have felt like a risk to choose for the central perspective of...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...a joyous coming to voice, but Faulkner's fiction seems destined to remain a generative place of productive dialogue about race and racism.15Werner, "Minstrel Nightmares." In this still relevant essay from...
Local Color
...are "colored" by regionally defined characters, settings, folkways, and dialects. The paradox, and thus the richness, of this often discounted form lies in the tension between local and national that...
"Aint that Something?"
...You're worser than me" (2), and "they's beer and pop in the cooler" (94), the dialogue doesn't make the characters sound uneducated. Instead, the vernacular dialect sounds natural and authentic,...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...vernacular dialect; ludicrous or crudely comic situations often involving violence; trickster figures; local lore and rural community customs. Although the southwestern humorists were generally well-placed southern gentlemen, what happens in...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...southwestern humorist tradition of Samuel Clemens and company" (22). Terrel Dixon also notes that Guthrie's dialect is "reminiscent of such early Southwestern humorists as [Thomas Bangs] Thorpe and Augustus Baldwin...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...way: understanding Cuba as a potential interlocutor regarding sustainable agriculture. New voices call for dialogue between US and Cuban citizens engaged in a burgeoning organic farm and garden movement in...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...urge to feel the impact immediately. I enjoy writing narrative or essay, but in both cases I miss the real dialogue with the human being. Probably because, more and more,...