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Scalawag's Race & Place coverage pushes the boundaries of traditional conversations about incarceration, segregation, gentrification, nutrition, migration, liberation, and more. We examine the role and legacy of race in the places that form the South—from porches and penitentiaries, to places of worship and port cities.

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That's not actually true

by Kiese Laymon February 4, 2019October 1, 2020
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Kicking up dust: Arts, race, and place converge in Scalawag's pilot artist-in-residence program

by Alysia Nicole Harris January 21, 2019October 1, 2020
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Life without parole is 'silent execution'

by Lyle C. May December 31, 2018November 12, 2020
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Echoes from the canyon: One family's cantina in small town Texas

by Gabriel Daniel Solis December 24, 2018October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

To my thirteen-year-old son

by LaToya Faulk December 24, 2018October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Failure was what I needed most

by Diana Clarke December 10, 2018October 1, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Under the cover of darkness

by A.D. Carson November 26, 2018October 1, 2020
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Why I don't want to become white

by Tonnie Marin November 19, 2018September 27, 2023
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South Padre Island: A crash course in fatherhood and patriarchy

by Michael Dowdy November 12, 2018November 14, 2023
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Measures meant to make North Carolina prisons safer are doing the opposite

by Lyle C. May October 29, 2018October 1, 2020
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In photos: Vine City through a lens

by C. Rose Smith October 15, 2018October 1, 2020
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The Water Next Time?

by Danielle Purifoy October 10, 2018October 1, 2020
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I know the culture that produced Kavanaugh: tradition and violence at D.C. prep schools

by Alysia Nicole Harris October 8, 2018November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Southern Floods: a regional look

by Matt Whitt October 1, 2018October 4, 2021
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Family and community survival inspire delicious food at Suryana Cuisine in Clarkston, GA

by Jodi Cash August 28, 2018December 12, 2023
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Savannah's "Pillow Talk" project confronts toxic masculinity through vulnerable conversations

by Ariel Felton July 24, 2018October 27, 2020
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Blind Spots: Selective Memory in Brazilian and U.S. Histories

by Andrew Jenner June 25, 2018September 27, 2023
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Deep Gap

by Serena Jewell May 28, 2018October 1, 2020
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The state locked them up. Now they're North Carolina's elite firefighting force.

by Casey Williams May 24, 2018October 1, 2020
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Who will speak for Alabama's ghosts?

by Christine Folch May 11, 2018October 1, 2020
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In Montgomery, a harrowing, beautiful reckoning with racial terror

by Sammy Feldblum May 8, 2018October 1, 2020
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Never a "More Convenient Season:" Reckoning with Rape Culture Now

by Alicia Reyes-Barrientez, Atiya Husain, Danielle Purifoy, Louise Seamster, Michelle Christian, Nura Sediqe and Trenita Childers May 1, 2018October 1, 2020
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Baby gay old man transguy seeks Southern comfort

by Sam Peterson April 19, 2018November 14, 2023
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Political triggers for a Black American gun club

by Amien Essif April 10, 2018October 27, 2020
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And when it is death which they misplace

by Joshua Aiken March 19, 2018October 1, 2020
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The $29 billion nuclear boondoggle that's poisoning Black communities

by Gloria Tatum March 6, 2018October 1, 2020
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A roadmap for solarizing Virginia's coal country

by Eric J. Wallace March 1, 2018October 1, 2020
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SoƱando con Honduras, Desde los Estados Unidos

by Natalie Yahr February 27, 2018October 27, 2020
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Finding life through loss

by Sean Saifa Wall February 13, 2018October 1, 2020
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I pledge allegiance to the Always Not Yet

by Zaina Alsous February 8, 2018October 1, 2020

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