Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...memorials, for the most part, people maintain their personal practices of memorial creation. Roadside memorials have faced a number of legal challenges, as state department of transportation officials and legislative...
The Change
...earth when quenched with rains called forth by our song and drumming. Leaves, which weeks later, would be taken down and the strings pulled like string on top of...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...white kerchiefs waving back and forth made languid light. 2. Langour. I lay back in the bucket seat, for the first time let a yellow boy kiss me and kiss...
Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road
...first appeared in The Northwest Review and will appear in Persons Unknown (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010, forthcoming). Published: 15 April 2010 © 2010 Jake Adam York and Southern Spaces...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...long as I can recall, she has woven in and out of the lives of others, helping them heal in the comfort of their homes or easing their suffering as...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...and unequal schooling (37). Their protests made headlines across the state, but international events derailed the effort and plunged the borderlands into the deadliest decade in the state's history. In...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
..."diversity ideology," whites extol the neighborhood's funky charm and eclectic mix of housing and population (race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and family type), and yet maintain mostly homogeneous friendships and make little effort to...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...in effective copyright protection, fair contracts and free expression." The Authors Guild's suit alleged that the massive digitization and preservation effort undertaken by the HathiTrust and its affiliates represented a...
Day of action, Freedom Plaza, Washington, D.C., September 27, 2010
...mountaintop removal mining (MTR) and its impact on Appalachian communities. Described as both a mobilizing effort and an opportunity for civil disobedience, the protest resulted in over one hundred arrests during...
The Southern Quarterly Call for Papers
...of the South. Since special issues on Natasha Trethewey and religion in the South are forthcoming, we are not currently reading manuscripts on these topics. We do not consider email...