DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...many commercial crops."511944–45 Malaria Control in War Areas, Federal Security Agency, US Public Health Service, Headquarters and Branch Reports, Box 2, Record Group 442, National Archives at Atlanta. Even DDT-maker...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...remembers earning five dollars a day cleaning houses after making three dollars a week in the South. The pay increase did not mean shorter hours. In recognition of how African...
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,"...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...to Montgomery, Alabama, to join in the March to Selma. Upon learning of Mary's flight, Sibley called Martin Luther King and asked him the personal favor of having one of...
Submission Guidelines
...global connections. Scholars working in southern studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latinx Studies, Caribbean Studies, and the Global South are encouraged to submit your work. Southern Spaces...
Encountering COVID
...odd time. The challenges we faced were very unusual. Luke, South Carolina Mask Wearer—November 2020 We have felt more discriminated against for wearing masks than being gay. And that's crazy....
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...complexity, and indigenous power rather than the inexorable westward march of European domination. For Dubcovsky this early South—"the composite societies who came to inhabit the colonies of South Carolina, Georgia,...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...the poem's late-breaking racial politics. Second, the setting allows the poet-speaker to meet her fellow southern poets on hew own "native ground," as it were, in a contemporary, southern, majority-black...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...challenges—from proliferating slave insurgencies to vocal liberal-abolitionist mobilization. But along industrial plantations' margins, vast and socially vibrant free rural communities of African descent made homes for themselves against many odds....
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...of the southern environment, such as falciparum malaria and yellow fever, as I and others have shown. Many parts of Weiner's picture will be familiar to students of southern and...