"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...author's fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Readers inhabit the thoughts of fifteen different narrators spread over fifty-nine chapters, experiencing how each family member (including the dead mother herself) views and is viewed...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...& Rescue (US&R) Task Force manuals.1National Urban Search & Rescue (US&R) Response System: Rescue Field Operations Guide. US&R-23-FG. January 2006. pp. 41–43. As I learned to decipher the codes, I...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...author of Wishing for Snow: A Memoir (2004), The Woman in the Red Dress: Gender, Space, and Reading (2002), and The Feminine and Faulkner: Reading (Beyond) Sexual Difference (1990), and...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...feeding runaways frequently required theft, which risked penalties ranging from a whipping to sale. Confrontations between slaves and runaways were often confrontations between neighbors and fugitive strangers. Indeed, plantation records,...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...widely credited with breaking the stranglehold of segregation in interstate travel in the US South. Georgia Calhoun, a retired teacher and board member of the Anniston Museum of Natural History,...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...assumptions about sectionalism in US history and politics. Conceptually, Gadsden is not breaking much new ground in this regard. Theoharis, Woodard, and the contributors to Freedom North urged a rethinking...
The Place of Appalachia
...scourge of OxyContin abuse in rural southwest Virginia and the drug traffic of Harlem. There are related, even more direct, linkages: "development" in rural Appalachian areas has at times taken...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...the last several decades its popularity has been spreading. Even before the publication of the 1991 edition of The Sacred Harp, rumors circulated among Sacred Harp singers that musicologist and...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...national rate had increased to over 38 percent. Percent of Low Income Students in US Public Schools 2013. Map and Data courtesy of Steve Suitts and the Southern Education Foundation....