No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...76.1 50.0 % Change, 1990–2006 -9.5 -3.5 * Sources: US Census Bureau, "Demographic Profile Highlights," American FactFinder (Washington, DC, 2000), accessed January 16, 2011, http://factfinder.census.gov/legacy/aff_sunset.html. Data for United States; Columbia,...
The Poetics of Rescue and Resilience: A Conversation with Jericho Brown on The Selected Shepherd
...and on whiteness -- fields that did not exist during Shepherd's time -- take these poems up. Solomon: There's a complexity in these poems and in his essays that should...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...trapped in her cheap pastel poster. Maybe he'd say his life was like a brand-new house fallen in on its foundation. In thirty years the kudzu covers it, and no...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...
The Tulip Quilt [ca 1880]
...the Spartanburg Herald on May 19, 1875, offered "Singer's celebrated sewing machines, the cheapest and the best sewing machine, for sale on easy terms." In the same issue, McK. Johnstone...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...including online and in letters-to-the-editor sections of newspapers), inclusive and honest programs in Richmond, Charleston, Washington, and elsewhere show that many people are looking for ways to inspire a more...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
Unquiet Emmett Till
Review Emmett Till continues to torment our imaginations. How could two (and almost certainly more) grown men, veterans, over six feet tall, see a fourteen year old kid as such...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Harp singing features day- or weekend-long gatherings, where participants sing without an audience from a songbook called The Sacred Harp. The convention in Cork drew a crowd unprecedented among European...
Sapelo Island Flyover
Video and Essay View the transcript of the video, along with a glossary of terms, here. A barrier island on the Georgia coast, Sapelo has an unusually long and varied...