Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...in India and Latina/Latino migrants to the USA, in these instances, to assimilate, to conform, to change themselves—if indeed they can. Upward social mobility is the presumed route out of...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
Introduction Virginia Ward's yearbook photo, Pebblebrook High School, 1970. Virginia Ward is not a small woman, but the fineness of her hands and the way her gray curls sweep around...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Facebook, accessed March 8, 2011, https://www.facebook.com/groups/110889371183/ and the Facebook wall, accessed March 8, 2011, http://facebook.com/. The first instance of pan-European participation in a Sacred Harp convention, the Ireland Convention has...
A Mess of Poke
...recent turn in the "locavore" movement toward wild food foraging, which seems to have particularly taken root in southern cities. See, for instance, a lengthy article in the New York...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...the South and the Lega Nord,” Cultural Geographies 12, no. 2 (2005): 151-173. For a more popular approach to similar themes, see Jim Webb, Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...state modernization in the Caribbean and fostered new international networks of scientific exchange. The third installment in the series by Paul Michael Warden, "Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South,...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...Persistence in Indian New England (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1997), 115, 121–24, 127. Pupils at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Pennsylvania, ca. 1900. Photograph by unknown creator. Courtesy of...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...authors—particularly given the imperatives of "publish or perish" and instability in hiring in higher education. This new author agreement represents the journal's parallel commitments to open access and to supporting...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...time recognized this; civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, for instance, called lynching not a southern, but a national pastime).2Ida B. Wells, "Lynch Law in America," January 1900, accessed October...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...badge. But the “thin blue line” can’t save him from a past of parental neglect and abuse. He crosses some other line, and in an instant, everything is gone. With...