The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...of an argument. When talking about region, we all think we know what we're talking about, and we tend to use the word in scores of different ways, and that...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...at the crossroads of the railroad and U.S. 11, just off the highway, a place where the growing number of mexicano workers can send envios of money home. I grew...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...among the nation's most restrictive, punitive, and least generous. The story of the evacuees' reception in South Carolina highlights the ways in which political, economic, and social conditions in cities...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...no reliable data on the number of children with special needs enrolled in private schools. A small number were established to serve special needs students, but the vast majority do...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
...lives and families. "They were basically saying," Brody recounts, "this is who I always had to be, this is how I always had to fight."53Charlotte Brody, recorded interview with the...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...continue beyond the first half of 2010. From June 2009 through March 2010, the number of jobless workers continued to grow in the South and the West. The number of...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...ways that race and gender shape and are shaped by health policy; and the inseparable connection between health justice and health advocacy. Beginning in 2022, the series expands to include...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...and create ways to live in a particular place, a process that included imagination and adaptation as well as habitation. Paulett finds that the geography of place varied with those...