Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...professor of sociology at the University of Cincinnati, argues against the "tyranny of proportionality," or the over-reliance on statistical measures of neighborhood diversity and integration (6). Nominal integration does not equate...
Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy
In the dream that recurs, like a bird returning, the place is still as it was—as though they went away, years ago, fully intending to be back by first...
Walt Whitman in Alabama
Maybe on his way to Gadsden, Queen City of the Coosa, to speak with the pilots and inland sailors, to cross the fords Jackson ran with blood or meet the...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...a different way. At the University of Georgia, a mob greeted Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter when they entered in 1961. A year later, two civilians died when James Meredith...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Jones talks with Natasha Trethewey about the subjects of their poetry. The conversation includes: how writers find ways to get beyond their own experiences; psychological exile from regional homeland; Jones's...
St. Catherines Island Flyover
...the Authors Steve Bransford is an educational analyst for video with University Technology Services at Emory University. He launched his own production company, Terminus Films, in 2001. Anthony (Tony) Martin...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
Naming Each Place
...the poem "Runaway." Poem text. Interview with Natasha Trethewey In this interview, conducted on September 5, 2009, during the Decatur (Georgia) Book Festival, Jericho Brown talks with Natasha Trethewey about...
A Video Excerpt from The Well-Placed Weed: The Bountiful Life of Ryan Gainey
...the garden accessory company Elegant Earth, worked with Gainey in the 1990s and noted that the designer had a way of "making things look spontaneous. . .that were planned." Most...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...urge action. Additionally, many of those same image-makers and publishers were drawn to photographs that affirmed that whatever solutions to racial injustice might be persued, they "need not lead to...