Palomares Bajo
...be comingled with South Carolina subsoil, as barrels of earth were shipped away and buried at the Savannah River Plant.2Palomares Scrapbook, Angier Biddle Duke Papers, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...at the Bell Aircraft bomber plant editing their publications. He continued to drink heavily, and he began to have an affair with a woman he met at the plant, calling...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...certainly peculiar. Joseph with his head tied in a pocket handkerchief, habited in an Indian Hunting short, and an old pair of cloth pantaloons, without neck handkerchief or collar. Thomas...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...time Jerry) Jones and I met forty years ago as coworkers—freight clerks and passenger ticket agents at the Greyhound bus station in Jackson, Mississippi. I was a high school senior....
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...multiple histories. I can't really say Welcome to Fairyland was the book I initially sought to write because this book came to fruition as I worked to revise a separate...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...turns of phrase and in their relationship to the popular tunes with which Simpson chose to pair them. Simpson notes that "To the White People of America" should be sung...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...black oppression. Across the US South, immigrant-advocacy groups borrow heavily, sometimes directly, from a civil rights playbook, mapping the 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride onto the original Freedom Ride and...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...black! Brown-skinned spouses reduced confusion." The crux of these lines is "each morning." Because of their pale skin, straight hair, and blue eyes it seems that Paul's brothers must make...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...was firm, his head held high, his form imposing and vigorous; save the remarkable whiteness of his curly hair, nothing betrayed his age. As is common in that country, he...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...is that in Georgia and elsewhere, government's inability to solve problems has become a self-fulfilling prophesy.9Jay Bookman, "The self-induced paralysis of Georgia government," The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Jay Bookman Blog, August...