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
...texts according to shared features of content or structure or stylistic conventions or rhetorical function. From The Southern Literary Messenger to The Companion to Southern Literature (2002), scholars and readers have looked for ways to...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...of analysis. "size of the burden imposed" on the protected group; "size of the disparity in a rule's impact on members of different racial or ethnic groups"; "degree to which...
The Crowd He Becomes
...who did it and the lawyer says I'll tell you who. Who is everyone who talks of niggers. Who is everyone who slurs to his neighbors and his sons. Everyone...
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
...site also foregrounds rich multimedia, deepening our journal's commitment to multimedia publishing. All articles, photo essays, and short videos feature a full-screen cover photo. Our migration to Vimeo and Soundcloud—social...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...for you, the viewer, standing this close to many other people’s blood who just so happen to be gay or bi or lesbian or trans (which you only know if...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...our own we can continue to understand slavery's afterlives and shape ecologies of sanity in these also turbulent times."20Segrest, Administrations of Lunacy, 10–11. In order to show connections between the...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...store-by-store or block-by-block with varying degrees of racial humiliation. For example, one white-owned shop in New Orleans allowed Reed's family to try on clothes before purchase, but in others not...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...with two options: play at one or another of the region's many historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or play outside the region. Thus, the origins of both the terrific...