Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...with power and resource sharing, equal status, or reciprocity in relationships; rather, closer examination of the everyday interactions among residents reveals how seemingly benign and race-neutral practices perpetuate inequality. A...
Remnants of Flannery
...eighty-nine years old today. O'Connor's legacy is unique among southern writers. Unlike contemporaries Eudora Welty or Carson McCullers, O'Connor primarily wrote short stories that drew upon her bleak, dark, and...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers." Southern Spaces, December 21, 2007, https://southernspaces.org/2007/geographies-hope-and-despair-atlantas-african-american-latino-and-white-day-laborers. Frederickson, Mary E. "Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South." Southern Spaces, December...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...for what had been lost, and to work toward a better life here in this world by singing of their pietistic hopes for a brighter day hereafter" (53). The songbooks...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...to either leave the state within a year or remain enslaved to be with her three children. Nancy’s story finds parallels in today’s Latin American migrants, who leave families behind...
Roadside Architecture
Introduction Como, Mississippi, 2004 I'm a very curious person. I don't pretend to know much about certain things, but I greatly enjoy the process of learning about things that pique...
The Boatloads
...like the print of a rubber stamp, rough from reuse. At the bank of the river, hoary old Charon can barely keep up. Each day he has more trips to...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...delivered "Praise Song for the Day" for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. She is also the first recipient of the Alphonse Fletcher, Sr. Fellowship for work that "contributes to...
History: The Parlor
...machine during these evening gatherings would probably have been seen as disruptive in more traditional households. Women may have been more likely to use sewing machines during the day and...
The Bulletin—June 26, 2012
...the Justice Department to reject similar proposals in Texas and South Carolina earlier this year. The US Supreme Court handed down a ruling yesterday in the case of Fletcher v....