Birth Right
...areas of the state are medically underserved, frequently impoverished, and suffer from higher infant and maternal mortality rates. According to a report by the American Hospital Association, between 1980 and...
Reverend Will D. Campbell, Southern Racial Reconciler
...a southern office for the Racial and Cultural Relations Department of the New York-based National Council of Churches. For the next seven years, he was closely allied with most of...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
...and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968 and the co-editor of a new scholarly edition of Arna Bontemps's 1939 novel Drums at Dusk and of the collection of essays...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
Presentation Part 2: Grem discusses conservative evangelical organizations and the rise of Christian small business in the twentieth century Part 3: S. Truett Cathy, evangelical and corporate America, Sunbelt politics, and...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...twentieth century, the neighborhood was predominantly white working- and middle class, but as the housing stock aged in the late 1980s, more African American families gained access. Creekridge Park also...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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When the Border Crossed Me
...already known that Mexican people, men mostly, had started coming to central North Carolina. I knew many of them processed hogs or poultry, and that others worked on dairy or...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...because it was unusual to me. I'd never seen any place like it in Florida. In 2004 I started a new photographic project called Primitive Florida. I felt that I...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
...Oliver Horton is the Benjamin Banneker Professor Emeritus of American Studies and History at George Washington University and Historian Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History. This...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry. Hill's poems have appeared in Callaloo, Ploughshares, Pleiades, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, The Oxford American, Tin House, and other literary journals, and in...