The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...appear on the map as dense blue dots surrounded by rings of pink. The map illustrates how elections are decided on an urban/suburban basis, as Lydia DePillis argued in The...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Three
...one year teaching appointments, adjuncting for low pay, no health benefits, and, for a while, a job that was academic piece work on the assembly line, where I was paid...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...comprise their own subgenre of the larger field of lynching studies. Their appeal is obvious: they recount dramatic stories of crime, revenge, and violence, set against the backdrop of the...
The Cobb County Braves
...income in the proposed area in Cobb County sits at approximately $61,000, with a poverty level of 8.6 percent. This contrasts dramatically with the median household income of $23,000 and...
Negotiating Black Identities
...in the suburbs, Jack and Jill Part 7: Dr. Lacy compares a "spatial community" with an "imagined community" to show how the two suburbs approach race relations Maps Referenced: About...
Boll Weevil Monument, Enterprise, Alabama, 2010
The historical marker accompanying the statue reads: Boll Weevil Monument December 11, 1919 In profound appreciation of the Boll Weevil and what it has done as the Herald of Prosperity...
Tuscaloosa: Riversong
...the Rona Jaffe Foundation. Her work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Black Issues Book Review, Ploughshares, Black Warrior Review, Brilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz and Literature, Bum...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...The Mississippi River flows throughout The Accidental City. The river appealed to empire builders as an artery that could connect North America from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. New...
Naming Each Place
...and poetry as enduring art About Jericho Brown Jericho Brown's first book, Please, was published by New Issues in Poetry and Prose in 2008. His poems have appeared in many...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as in New Mexico, California, and a few other states outside the South, an increase in the number of Latino children appears...