The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...making this argument, Campney builds on the work of Sundiata Keita Cha-Jua, "'A Warlike Demonstration': Legalism, Armed Resistance, and Black Political Mobilization in Decatur, Illinois, 1894–1898," The Journal of Negro...
Sapelo Island Flyover
...in the sixteenth century resulted in the naming of "Sapelo," an Anglicized corruption of "Zapala" from Spanish and likely a corruption of the original Guale name for the island. French...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...argues, or does it mainly aim to capture the distinctive dynamics of the Texan experience? In one key respect Rough Country is unlike Communities of Discourse. While Communities is written...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...for plaintiff because he did not derive his income from whites, because he regularly paid his poll tax, and because—unlike most blacks—he was a registered Democrat who could plausibly claim...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...include or address the needs of minority residents (23, 55–57). Mayorga-Gallo likens diversity ideology to colorblind racism,1Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: Color Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...Tennessee Gas manager with local roots, discovered their shared interest in regional cattle breeds. Over time, oil and gas firms mobilized middlemen like Berard to try to assuage fishermen and...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...space and place retain some primacy in historical narratives, which will force them to "make more modest claims for abstract ideas and modern machines than [they] like to." He suggests...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...with another species. In essence, coexistence asks us to take coyotes seriously as participants in a community defined by all living beings that inhabit it—plant, human, and animal-life alike. Janet...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...of the South’s economic and racial framework. Others see New Orleans as a Caribbean capital. In fact, New Orleans, like much of the South, is often “exemplary” of larger historical...
MARBL Presents Atlanta Intersections: Photographer Chip Simone on Atlanta and Photography
...mayor, and his impact on the city’s topography, race relations, and the development of its artistic community. For more information about the role that art organizations like NEXUS have played...