Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition
...New Orleans—variants of the X-code left by searchers as they systematically covered the city, critically pertinent markings applied to visited houses and buildings. “Paint fades, archives endure,” reads a promotional...
Dirty Decade: Rap Music and the US South, 1997–2007
...with slavery; a 'down-home' black South marked by distinctive speech and cultural practices; a sexually libidinous South; a rural, bucolic South; a lawless, criminal South; and a sophisticated urban South....
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...that he was merely reporting on "one man's South" seemed credible, and most readers accepted A Southerner Discovers the South in that spirit.7Daniels, A Southerner Discovers the South, 10. Reviewers praised...
Genres of Southern Literature
...and Jacobs', South: Modern Southern Literature in its Cultural Setting). Heilman identified five features of the southern literary mind that made for distinctively "southern" texts based on analysis of what he...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...News, February 3, 1955, 3; "South Carolina," Southern School News, March 3, 1955, 14; "South Carolina," Southern School News, July 1955, 4. Even bills proposing confrontational tactics, such as closing...
Religion and the US South
...Courtesy of Baylor University Libraries, Southern Baptist Convention Annuals. Screenshot by Southern Spaces. Southern religious leaders made a major contribution to promoting southern nationalism by the secession of major denominations. Well before...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...Georgia, from The South and the Building of the Nation, Volume VI: Southern Economic History, The Southern Historical Publication Society, 1909. The future size and scope of the American textile...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...media Southern Spaces could accommodate. Southern Spaces homepage tablet display, 2016. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. As monitors grew and pixels shrank and the web's dominant aesthetic shifted from a three-dimensional...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Much work in southern studies remains heavily influenced by black-white visions of the plantation South, Civil-War South, Jim-Crow South, and civil rights South, perspectives that render immigration invisible. Recent demographic...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...minds about the U. S. South and segregation. Recent histories have stressed a crucial difference between national and local television news and suggested that local television in the South helped...