Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...ecology of a given area" (54). While the state took relatively little action to stem wetland degradation until the 1970s, concern among some public officials, oystermen, and other coastal residents...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...Center, the Metro Atlanta Coyote Project studies behaviors and activity patterns of urban coyotes in order to develop more effective management strategies of these populations. Mary Paglieri of the Little...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...the continued resilience of white supremacy, Mississippi Praying closes by arguing that Christian moral suasion did little to effect change. For Dupont, the "holy symbiosis" of white supremacy and evangelicalism...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...alone I thought it might be the proverbial train wreck of colliding stereotypes, but like most passersby of an accident I had to stare at least a little. A writer...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...southwestern humor. Standard English, which in a properly ordered world should constitute privilege, in the South conceived as border region is little more than a very inadequate shield against abrupt...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
Introduction Map of Major Indian Tribes in the "South,"circa 1750 I borrow only my title from Alfred Kazin's 1942 study On Native Grounds, an influential reading of modern American prose...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...American Indian Literary Nationalism concerning why tribal viewpoints, even if hybrid, could still be claimed as tribal and as national. The problem with debates, however, is they do very little...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
...gang. I could feel the tears welling up in my eyes. "Moody…" it was little Gene again interrupting his singing. "Moody, we're gonna git things straight in Washington, huh?" I...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...love's lodging tonight I'd draw nigh And in her lily-white arms I'd lie there all night And I'd watch the little windows for the dawning of day. Well I strolled...