Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...environmental justice, environmental racism, agroecology, landscape architecture, eco-literature, ecological historic preservation, sustainability, biodiversity, foodways, activism, eco-feminism, deep ecology, environmental law, ethical consumerism, corporate environmental policy, environmental ethics, spirituality and religion,...
Belle plaine newspaper
...negros [sic] and pounded up a few more. . . . The man may come clear but he will find it a little different than in Alabama and may wait...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...around the globe is surely well-known. Instead, scholars have posited that the term "lynching" was specific to the United States and has its own complicated history. As Waldrep has shown in previous work,...
The Bulletin—April 24, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...already marginalized African American community. Around a thousand people were displaced, dozens of businesses shuttered, and overall racial segregation was intensified as most African Americans resettled in areas further east...
I Find Joy In the Cemetery Trees
...they started in a slight breeze off the lake, the many and patient sails, I could see in those motions a little of the world that owns me — and...
A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...contradiction. Walker's most well-known method is the once-genteel art of silhouette making, a practice that was a literal part—along with a love for Sir Walter Scott's work, Greek revival homes,...
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
...projects is an anthology on new technology, a book manuscript on racial epistemologies in the electronic age, and the launching of an internet journal through the Institute for Multimedia Literacy....
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...documents revealing her father David Scribner’s role in a little known chapter of the Scottsboro story. Scribner was arrested after responding to a ruse designed to entrap the defense team....
A Mess of Poke
Essay If some of y’all never been down South too much, I’m gonna tell you a little bit about this, so that you’ll understand what I’m talking about Down there...