How I Shed My Skin
...mighty black struggle and interracial coalition—there's still far to go. Honoring local achievements while warning of persistent injustice, Jim Grimsley's bold memoir of a racist white upbringing forecloses sentimentality with...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...white supremacist paraphernalia led to a long overdue consensus in the all but all-white Republican party that publicly-sanctioned displays of the flag should stop. South Carolina and Alabama removed the...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...line in college and as outside linebacker during his twelve-year professional career with the Kansas City Chiefs. His coach with the Chiefs, Hank Stram, wasn't kidding when he said that...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...produces ecological disasters as well as economic, political, and social inequalities.3Ann Pettifor, The Case for the Green New Deal (London: Verso, 2019). The American version of the Green New Deal...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...whereas coal contributes to climate change and the disruption of human societies all over the world; whereas a rural policy should incorporate ecological principles with food production on a small...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...them the autobiographical novel that the beginning writer often writes? GAUTREAUX: No, no interest whatsoever in ever doing anything autobiographical. There are more interesting stories to tell. The last book...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Youngest Governor (Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2008), 260, 303–306; William Warren Rogers et al., Alabama: A History of a Deep South State (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 547–548. Alabama's...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...editorial staff with technical, editorial, and conceptual skills that will aid in the job market and expand career possibilities. Staff members also acquire technical skills—ranging from video, audio, and image...
Per Capita Income and Percentage of Residents Living Below the Poverty Line in Georgia Counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Region
...(directly north and southwest of Columbus), all the counties are poorer than the state average. Troup Below poverty line %: 14.8 Per capita income: $17,626 Harris Below poverty line %:...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...getting the closest thing we have to an official funeral, lying in state at the old city hall, midst portraits of French explorers, colonial potentates, Confederate generals and former mayors....