The Bulletin—November 15, 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...
Ellipsis
White-blossoming trees In front of the house In Sparta, Georgia, Where they together lived: Free woman of color (black, white, Cherokee), white male slaver, and their children who slept with...
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
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...
The Bulletin—July 24, 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...
Watching the Surface for a Sign
...for the Arts, the US Fulbright Commission, and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Phillips lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing and literature at Drew University. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
Review As I write this review of Robert Wuthnow's compelling account of Texas religious and cultural history, I am struck by two seemingly unrelated yet telling events that resonate...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...that minority displacement was an environmental concern. Improvement in the lives of vulnerable minorities, writes Tretter, will only be possible through an inclusive redefinition of the “environment.” Examining the historical...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...he chose to do so. Alternatively, vernacular artists like Patton and Presley followed an opposite trajectory. Born into poverty, they worked all their lives to escape the abject geographies of...
The Bulletin—December 20, 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...
California Creek, North Carolina
...it being a road. All of a sudden for me it's gonna be a road. One of the overlooks is right there. They decided right where I lived was the...