A Horrible, Beautiful Beast
...and other scholars have been so busy whittling away at that old standard story that today only a stump remains. Even the National History Standards, written and approved during a...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...he recalled. "I learned that on the front porch at night, when my grandmother and other people would talk about what the situations were and what needed to be done,...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...the poorest families in Bolivar. Pushing against the monocrop culture that had rendered many Black sharecroppers jobless, the NBCFC grew crops that would meet nutritional needs: protein-rich nuts, peas and...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...over the world diehard fans of Sheriff Andy and Deputy Fife (more on that later), is also on the program. Journalists from the local media, following a tradition that began...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...Mexico, and Washington. Beneath them all lies a deeper reality—local people decided for themselves what laws were just and what laws were unjust, and behaved accordingly. In Díaz's analysis, this...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...indicator of the place attachment expressed by residents, the town's population increased after the rebuilding periods that followed numerous floods. Like Princeville, the town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, also came...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...that Theriot sidesteps: to what extent is coastal restoration premised on protecting the hydrocarbon industry and oil and gas firms? What happens when coastal restoration threatens industry survival? When the...
And the Prize Goes to...
...studies. Finally, the class noted Delerme's combination of tools from linguistics and sonic studies that opened up her subjects in ways that left them wanting to learn more. One student...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
Big Ten football has received plenty of criticism in recent years, much of it well deserved. The conference clearly isn't what it used to be, and Marc Tracy recently identified...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...addressing the primary question of education in America today: what does it take and what will be done to provide low-income students with a good chance to succeed in public...
