"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...as a racial one.90"'Possums and Politics," Watchman and Southron (Sumter, SC), Jan. 26, 1898, 2. "Bill Arp," was a pseudonym for politician Charles Henry Smith: https://evhsonline.org/bartow-history/people/charles-henry-smith-bill-arp-great-american-humorist-writer. Newspapers reported that the...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...perpetrated against the dead, but in this instance the violation of their graves involves the destruction of a monument to evolving free black culture in the District of Columbia." Female...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...process could be limited in some such areas, see Yesenia Barragan, Freedom's Captives: Slavery and Gradual Emancipation on the Colombian Black Pacific (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) and "Commerce in...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...perspectives yield an increasingly complex sense of speakers and voices; as Looking at Appalachia contributor Lou Murrey explains in her commentary on May's project and several other online, collaborative photography...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...poems about queer desire, or only poems about his mother. It was never thematic. It was always craft based. For instance, in Angel, Interrupted, he's very clearly trying to write...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...Center, Los Angeles, CA, December 17, 2021. Photograph by Jae C. Hong. Courtesy of the Associated Press. SARS CoV-2 is not the first viral respiratory pathogen to emerge and spread...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...in the shade. The first picture (on top) is 1987. The second picture (bottom) is 2021. So that's thirty-four years. That's the same cabin and that's the same dock with...
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...by HarperCollins in 2021. Cover Image Attribution Horton Mill Covered Bridge Over Black Warrior River, February 7, 2021. Photograph by Flickr user Jimmy Emerson, DVM. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
Opening Cover of Southern Changes, Summer 1996. If International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Juan Antonio Samaranch's address to the closing ceremonies of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games is remembered at...