The Black Belt
...Geologically, the region lies within the Gulf South's Coastal Plain in a crescent some twenty to twenty-five miles wide that stretches from eastern, south-central Alabama into northwestern Mississippi. The unusually...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...anything but alternative. Home was a new version of the South created by desegregation, interstates, air conditioning, and airports. Our parents had mostly enjoyed the rewards, a hard-earned success that...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...Sunday to vend vegetables and dance the Bamboula, squats in the park's southwestern corner, adjacent to the Municipal Auditorium. To jazz aficionados, it’s a spiritual site. Nowhere else in the...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Conjugal Union: The Body, the Hours and the Black American (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Martha Southgate: What Came Before Cover, left, from Martha Southgate's Third Girl from the Left...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...recounts how Association members promoted laws and zoning practices that shut down bars and blocked live music, leading to fewer venues for brass bands and other New Orleans musicians. The...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...blood-sweeten'd beverage —Robert Southey, Poems of the Slave Trade, Sonnet III1Robert Southey, The Poetical Works of Robert Southey (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1839), 110. Nothing expresses more viscerally...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. After over a decade of research and surveying, North Carolina and South Carolina have reached an agreement on the official 335-mile border...
Southern Spaces Recommends
Blog Post Eric Solomon, "Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces" series editor: I've been on a reading streak the past few months. Here are a few I recommend. In terms of...
Single Centers of Creation?
...Desmognathus aeneus Seepage Salamander Desmognathus marmoratus Shovel-nosed Salamander Plethodon teyahalee Southern Appalachian Salamander Desmognathus auriculatus* Southern Dusky Salamander Plethodon metcalfi Southern Gray-cheeked Salamander Plethodon richmondi Southern Ravine Salamander Pseudotriton ruber...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...coalfields of southern West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia, and east Tennessee. By 1994, the US Department of Energy anticipated a production increase of as much as 24 million tons...