Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...S. Rosecrans, who promoted a Mexico Pacific and Rio Bravo Railroad from New Orleans to Mazatlán, and Edward Lee Plumb, who planned to connect Laredo to San Blas on Mexico's Pacific...
Genres of Southern Literature
...of culture. The claim to order that is presented here highlights selected genres indelibly associated with the South: the plantation novel, the slave narrative, southwestern humor, southern pastoral and "counter-pastoral,"...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...the political processes are equally open; that is, whether members of a protected class have the same opportunity as others to participate in the electoral process and to elect candidates...
The Crowd He Becomes
...everyone is quiet. I'll tell you who did it, he says. We all did. * The photographer keeps his beat, past the crater in the church foundation, through the park,...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...the role of place in his poetry, and how he relates to the idea of the "Southern writer." Part 2: Natasha Trethewey Interviews Dan Albergotti Part 3: Natasha Trethewey Interviews Dan Albergotti...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...system. We look forward to making this toolkit for publishing multimedia journals available as a Drupal distribution this fall. The new front page of Southern Spaces. Screen capture courtesy of Southern Spaces....
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...passages mentioning homosexuality as some sort of defense when the subject was inevitably brought up around the dinner table. There are several passages that refer to Jesus helping heal a...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...For paying white patients, moral therapy usually meant walking or light gardening in outdoor spaces, or needlework or carpentry inside. For Black patients, "moral therapy" meant something else entirely, and...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...Reed. Photograph courtesy of Verso Books. Passing as white occupies a full chapter as Reed explores the making of racial identities. During his teenage years in New Orleans, passant blanc...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...The Big Ten's modern heyday in football was in the 1950s and 1960s. The conference's strength, particularly from the mid-1950s on, was due in large part to the fact that...