A Mess of Poke
...with us in the northeast Georgia mountains when I was in my early teens. She would take a grocery sack on her walks along the country roads near our house...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...into and out of Virginia pre-dated and paralleled the early colonists'. Pocohontas, for example, was preparing to return to Virginia when she died in England. Had she lived longer, her pattern...
Lyrics to Pretty Saro
...Ocoee, on the mount of said brow Where I once loved her dearly and I don't hate her now. Published: 15 April 2004 © 2004 Allen Tullos and Southern Spaces...
Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...twentieth- and early twenty-first-century version of "Negro removal."3"Negro removal" was a phrase used to describe the disproportionate displacement of black people from neighborhoods targeted for urban renewal. "Urban renewal," writes...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...the early twenty-first century, has been the mainstay of conservative populism for the past four decades. Republican politicians have successfully pitted "liberal elites" against "middle America," or as Phillips himself...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...by kin and community. Addie Bundren's body is both nearly lost in a river and consumed in a fire deliberately set by her own son, Darl; two of her other...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...revisiting and return is not directly on display here, however. Instead, the exhibit includes beautiful examples of his early photographs in which his use of a tripod and large format...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...those activists had insisted on and used so effectively in early decades. The goal of quality education for African American school children and an ethics of equity for all remained...
The Cobb County Braves
...nearly forty percent poverty level in the neighborhood around Turner Field. Centennial Olympic Stadium, 1996. Photograph by Edwin P. Ewing, Jr. From the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Public...
J-Mill on Regulating
J-Mill [Jeremy Miller]. 1994. "Regulatin' and Mic Checkin'." The Source 54, Mar., 24. [excerpt] "In Miami, DJing has been going strong since the early days of hip-hop, but a...