The Place of Appalachia
...form as prison complexes, which provide jobs to rural whites who facilitate the containment of incarcerated, disproportionately poor, disproportionately black and Latino men and women from distant urban areas.6Appalshop, located...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...the partiality of history, the politics of the archive, the distinctive obstacles and obligations of biographers, and the methodological difficulties for historians of emotion, gender, and sexuality. Often with a...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...disparities, and, perhaps most glaringly, religious beliefs? Where is a discussion of intersectionality? Stephens-Davidowitz's final scene leaves one very strong desire unexamined: what of the student in his late twenties...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...© Eggleston Artistic Trust. In a William Eggleston photograph currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a young African American woman wearing a lime green dress and a...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
Photograph of Rosa, Miguel and their son. Global Lives, Local Struggles (Documentary footage used in this essay was provided by William Brown, Director, Living Across Borders.) Part 2: Dr. Odem describes...
Besieged Terrain
...but nevertheless precious terrain. To do this, the authors alternate chapters, with English professor Reece focusing on the environmental history of the Robinson Forest, and biologist Krupa discussing its animals,...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...as commander of the Cherokee removal army and promptly divided the Cherokee Nation into three military districts. Eight of the fourteen posts in Georgia lay in the Middle Military District...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...New Works in Ethnic Studies, from the University of California Press. He currently serves as Director of the Center for Diversity and Democracy at USC. He works on both historical...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...memoirs. Addressing different moments in time and different genres, Hutchison's chapters are tied together by a persistent focus on Confederate literary nationalism's relationship to imagined places and actual spaces that...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...a functional mouthpiece and as a credible and reliable character is not diminished by such annoyances as dialect and and humiliatingly submissive behavior in his encounter with this white man,...