Changing Places, Changing Lives
...engines that drove much of what made the southern economy unique in the decades between revolution and secession. What concerns Pargas in Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South...
Submission Process
...Does the piece traffic in new and progressive ideas about US Souths or southern distinctiveness and nostalgia? Permissions: Would using the content or suggested media require extensive, expensive, or impossible permissions?...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...for slaves in the Deep South, slaves became more likely to run away. Border slave-owners and slaves made bargains that mitigated the mutual threats of southward sale and northward escape....
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...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Institute of Arts and Letters. Jones is a professor and distinguished scholar at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. In 2009, he will be inducted into the Southern Fellowship of Writers....
A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama
...Murmuration of Starlings (2008), and his poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review. Interview with Natasha...
Naming Each Place
...learning to love his hometown, gay Black identity, the visibility of southern poets, and autobiography in poetry. Part 2: Trethewey and Brown discuss the place of region in writing and the...
In the Queen City: A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
...(2005), and A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), and his poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review....
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...of a few people as circumstances take them across Texas. As with Slacker and the Before Trilogy, setting is crucial to Boyhood. From the new industrial South of Houston, to...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...another instance of a form of southern environmental injustice whose total ramifications have rarely been adequately acknowledged or addressed. In Spears's work, Anniston's story, alongside many other stories of those...