An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...workers, a voice fairly new to southern literature, offered by other writers of Gautreaux's generation (such as Mississippi's Larry Brown and South Carolina's Dorothy Allison), countering or deconstructing poor white...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...to Home: African Americans Reclaim the Rural South (New York: Basic Books, 1996); Sabrina Pendergrass, "Perceptions of Race and Region in the Black Reverse Migration to the South," Du Bois...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...of African Americans from the South played football in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC), and the Southwest Conference (SWC), leaving the best African American high-school players...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...African Americans, such as southwest Atlanta.10For a rich discussion of the development and growth of these neighborhoods on the western, southwestern, and southern edges of the city of Atlanta from...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the South, while southern Ohioans and Indianans exhibited a more virulent form of racism than did their fellow Midwesterners or other northerners. Salafia argues that the latter part of that...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...wanted to honor an essay that had influenced the entire field of Native American literary studies, Simon Ortiz’s seminal 1981 work, “Towards a National Indian Literature.” In American Indian Literary...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Gulfport, Mississippi, 2005." Southern Spaces, September 1, 2008, https://southernspaces.org/2008/barge-washed-ashore-after-hurricane-katrina-gulfport-mississippi-2005. Moye, Dorothy. "Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition." Southern Spaces, August 26, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/katrina-5-x-code-exhibition. ———. "The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript." Southern...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...was African American. The stacked rows of small black boxes that support the platform suggest the unacknowledged role of African Americans in upholding this culture and sustaining its economic structure....
The Border South
...writers, and observers have tried to define the Border South and its relationship to the rest of the South. Historian William Freehling, for example, considers the border the "quasi South,"...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...thousand African American, Latino, and white day laborers have been searching for work or working in Atlanta's manual trades and industries on a daily basis since the early 1980s. African...