Besieged Terrain
...from a strip mine on its south-southeast border, Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy of Kentucky Heartwood. Strip mine on the south-southeast border of Robinson Forest, Kentucky, 2009. Photograph courtesy...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...our understanding of the importance of African American women—particularly those ensnared in the South's penal system—in the making of New South modernity. It demonstrates the centrality of the carceral regime...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...in Atlanta" (master's thesis, Emory University, 1993), 17. Laboring for Justice in Atlanta's Landscapes of Power Boosters promoted Atlanta as the "Jewel of the South," "City of the Twenty-First Century,"...
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
...show up in southern West Virginia or eastern Kentucky and open factories and offices. I wrote the Commons Communities Act after months of thinking about how the people of the...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...challenges of the twenty-first century. To secure clean air and water, climate and community resilience, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment for all. To promote justice and...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...Editor's Introduction: 'The Necessary Utterance'—Natasha Trethewey's Southern Poetics," The Southern Quarterly 50, no. 4 (Summer 2013): 7, http://www.usm.edu/southern-quarterly-literary-magazine/intros/504guestedintro.pdf. signaling how the southern and spatial contexts in which she grew up...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008),...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...neighborhoods on the South and West Sides, where the housing and infrastructure started to crack and crumble. Southern migrant Geri Oliver, owner of the celebrated Palm Tavern, talks about how...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...Bertram Wyatt-Brown, The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 205; Richard H. King, A Southern Renaissance: The Cultural Awakening...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...the South's Public Schools." Southern Spaces, April 16, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/crisis-new-majority-low-income-students-souths-public-schools. ———. "The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation." Southern Spaces, June 29, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/worst-times-children-extreme-poverty-south-and-nation....