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....
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
Introduction Mary E. Frederickson, Tending an early twentieth century Draper loom made in Massachusetts for use in mills across the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama, Margilan, Uzbekistan, 2006. I heard the...
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...
Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement
...Youngest Governor (Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2008), 260, 303–306; William Warren Rogers et al., Alabama: A History of a Deep South State (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 547–548. Alabama's...
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...
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...
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...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...of coniferous and deciduous forests referred to as "southern" or "yellow" pine. The ecological characteristics of the southern pine forests contributed to lumbermen's opportunistic dreams. Alabama's southwestern Pine Hills' climate...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...and white, to communities across the South. In Roanoke, Virginia WDBJ ran a weekly program in 1955 titled "Virginia's Dilemma" as the state's policy of "massive resistance" was taking shape....
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...because I was interested in southern studies. I left a digital project manager. For many of the core team, the idea was that if we made Southern Spaces as good...