The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Thursday, the New Orleans Times-Picayune announced that it "will significantly increase its online news-gathering efforts 24 hours a day, seven days...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
..."Confederate Flag Rally," along the highways of Walton, Newton, and Rockdale counties. Both events started at 10:00 am, and began and ended at sites in Monroe about a mile away...
The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia
...friends that lived down at the end of the street. I first got the word from him that they were moving. I knew that Jeff, the dad, had been out...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...corn, soybeans, and cotton thrive. The Mississippi River and all its branches flow over the boundaries of its own banks, flooding the soil and adding new sediment, giving it new...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...slaves brought farming knowledge with them to the New World, and planters relied upon slaves' farming expertise. After Emancipation, former slaves made remarkable progress in acquiring farms, and by 1910,...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...other siblings, had a famously peripatetic and cosmopolitan childhood. In her case, Allegheny was followed by family sojourns in New York City, Vienna, Paris, and Oakland, California, where (as she...
Local Color
...color writers might be seen as promoting a separatist view of region through their attention to difference and unique detail, but they might also be seen as arguing an early...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...photography's historical role in the construction of African American identity. As a relatively new mechanical medium, training in early photography was not restricted by racially limited access to academic fine...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
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"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...Los Angeles to New York to New Haven. Not content with just being a talented actor, Franco has spent the last few years trying to fashion himself into an arts...