I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
I find joy in the cemetery trees. Their roots are in our hearts. In their leaves the soul of another century is in ascension. I hear the rustling of their...
Vestibule
...that is what you say. What I know is what is sacred. Lord of this other world, let me recall that night. Let me again hear how our whispered exclamations...
The Border South
..."a world between," and sees Richmond as "less southern" than Charleston. The true South, it seems, can only be found in the plantation black belt in the Lower South where...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...interviewed residents of small towns in the rural South who reported believing internet rumors that Obama was a Muslim. It ran with the picture of Bill Pennington, a white barber...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...vernacular dialect; ludicrous or crudely comic situations often involving violence; trickster figures; local lore and rural community customs. Although the southwestern humorists were generally well-placed southern gentlemen, what happens in...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...ways. We fervently hope for "a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise."2"About," Black Lives Matter, https://blacklivesmatter.com/about. Southern Spaces is a journal devoted to critically and...
The Chesapeake Bay
...resource of worldwide significance" and admitting that "man's use and abuse of its bounty" along with "growth and development" have "taken a toll on the Bay system." The partners recognized...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...creativity and activity—to bear on its analyses, Water Graves effectively broadens the scope of the unritual to include the natural world, underlining connections between racial violence and environmental destruction. One...