Sea Changes in Personhood
...tropics. Underwater sculpture by Jason deCaires Taylor, Dragon Bay, Grenada, 2011. Photograph by Michael Brashier. Courtesy of Michael Brashier. Ariel's Ecology is built around an introduction, five chapters and an...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...August 23 to August 30, 2005, Hurricane Katrina stormed though New Orleans, causing the levees to break, devastating a large part of the Crescent City. To mark the seventh anniversary...
The Bulletin—September 4, 2012
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...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the secession crisis. An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Colonies, Great Britain, August 28, 1833. Courtesy of the Freedom City virtual archive, Toronto Public Library. For...
Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...campus of a major university that pulls 60 percent of its student population from metro Atlanta, the most important city in the South. Three likely leaders of tomorrow." But I...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...gender. As Hardwig notes, "Neither Murfree nor Chesnutt felt the need to obey the demands of a gendered and racialized sense of authenticity, but their readership and editors imposed it...
The State House Aflame 1833
Fire can burn brands on a slave's skin as he changes hands like cattle. And chattel slavery in a capital city is as old as fire and man. Milledgeville's no...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...and celebrate the southern writer’s capacity to resist unexamined norms that allow any system of dominance to roll on unchallenged. These resistant literatures, with greater impact than southern literary history...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...Beverly-Jean Daniel, "Teaching while Black: racial dynamics, evaluations, and the role of White females in the Canadian academy in carrying the racism torch," Race, Ethnicity, and Education 22, no. 1...