Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...quick to warn that dwelling on the modern defenders of the erstwhile slave society (touting "heritage not hate") or lingering on "explicit racial hierarchies that defined Jim Crow era" should...
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills
...GA-2390-10. Reverberations of Olmsted's designs are surfacing today in Druid Hills, a suburban space that exists as a borderland, literally "outside the city", but not quite in the country. Having...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...I do a Q & A people ask "What happened? What happened with the violence?" So, that is just a reality of that medium, giving up some depth in order...
"Within Thy Circling Pow'r I Stand": Immersive Video from Sacred Harp's Hollow Square
...the center for a song, believing that this is the best vantage point from which to apprehend what makes the music culture so moving to its participants. Composing Sacred Harp's...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
..."We accomplished what we set out to do," Lachowski said. "It's not that we are miserable, it's just that we've seen all we're going to see and don't want to...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...first name used, given that surnames are usually inscribed on Mount Zion–FUBS headstones? Possibly because the child was buried within an extant family plot that was obscured through the relocation...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...never made it off the drawing board. Those that opened had few visitors. Landscapes of Exclusion details how park planners perpetuated white racism. In South Carolina, for example, fearing that...
The Bulletin—October 18, 2012
...mountaintop removal mining operations in Kentucky and West Virginia arguing that "in Appalachia . . . the Clean Water Act is not being enforced." Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant announced today...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...I don't think that's attributable to the fact that it is so much clearer now that we need this [Act]. I think it is attributable, very likely attributable, to a...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...systems that the book depicts and thus forced readers interested in change to grapple with the fact that corporations are not merely wanton and irresponsible, and that fenceline communities are...