"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...by W.L. Shepard. Originally published in Harper's Weekly (January 1, 1881) XXV., No. 1253, 5. Image produced by ProQuest LLC as part of ProQuest® HarpWeek Archive. www.proquest.com. Image published with...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...more and more public money is being taken from public schools and put into prison building and operations (Sloan). Meanwhile, as public schools become substandard from the budget cuts, they...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...I was asked to produce early on for promotional purposes, the ubiquitous roadside Golgothas. These are peppered throughout, including lingering as well as fast-paced shots of photo portraits that are...
Racial breakdown of the population of the fourteen Georgia counties in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley.
...38.94 4,633 59.47 Seminole 5,785 61.75 3,247 34.66 Stewart 1,949 37.11 3,232 61.54 Talbot 2,391 36.80 4,002 61.59 Terrell 4,163 37.95 6,658 60.69 Troup 38,676 65.80 18,734 31.87 Published: 16...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...which represent places in the US South—have become seared into the southern imaginary. Calling up associations of segregation and depression-era rural poverty, the photographs both tie the present-day South to...
Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina
...1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Burn piles stripped hillside, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Stripped hillside, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg....
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...1000-word blog posts, as well as longer commentaries, essays, articles and media productions that address the public health and political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic from multiple perspectives. The series...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
Introduction Popular American films and literature often depict tornadoes as distinctly midwestern phenomena: a girl in Kansas is whisked away by an afternoon cyclone, a pack of storm chasers follow...
Genres of Southern Literature
...order to rebuke the disordered present, an agenda that identifies their productions as pastoral, a genre defined by its practitioners’ intention to provide social critique within clearly defined literary conventions....
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...East Austin, the number of African American residents declined by 3,711 (14.5 percent) from 2000 to 2010.19City of Austin, "District 1 Demographic Profile," http://www.austintexas.gov/sites/ default/files/files/Planning/Demographics/District_1_demographic_profile_2000_2010.pdf, accessed March 18, 2015. Core...