Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...did write in and of the agrarian Deep South for which Andalusia provided a model. The 544-acre estate consists of "gently rolling hills divided into a farm complex, hayfields, pastures,...
How I Shed My Skin
...as teaching the worst lessons. There, racist discourse flowed between adults, between Sunday School and worship services, as well as mid-week meetings, at both the Baptist and Methodist churches he...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...2004 children's novel, and a work of historical fiction.4See Davis McCombs's Ultima Thule (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), Elizabeth Mitchell's Journey to the Bottomless Pit: The Story of Stephen Bishop and Mammoth...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...can promote meaningful social change if it boosts the tax base and contributes to school desegregation. Durham often loses middle-class residents to Chapel Hill or to other parts of the metro...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...supposedly new urgent call for equity when it comes to the vaccine?"4Fabiola Cineas, "Black and Latino Communities are Being Left Behind in the Vaccine Rollout," Vox, February 24, 2021, https://www.vox.com/22291047/black-latino-vaccine-race-chicago....
Longleaf, Far as the Eye Can See: A New Vision of North America's Richest Forest
...Bill Finch, Beth Maynor Young, Rhett Johnson, and John C. Hall. Copyright © 2012 by the University of North Carolina Press. Photographs © 2012 by Beth Maynor Young. Used by...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...condition called climax, "'virgin forest'—many species, old bones, lots of rotten leaves, complex energy pathways, woodpeckers living in snags, and conies harvesting tiny piles of grass. This condition has considerable...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...nation through assimilation or absorption (85). Cover to Karl Jacoby's The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave who Became a Mexican Millionaire (New York: W.W. Norton, 2016). In 1894, William Ellis,...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Elegantly photographed in elite settings, Page's large portraits, printed on canvas to reflect painted portraits in the installation, depict contemporary Charlestonians with the names of planter families. Recalling the complex...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...Canton, GA, 8 August 2003. Manuel Guzmán concurred, "It is dangerous [at a street corner]. I feel more safe here. People respect you. I like the list. I feel comfortable...