Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...by the work.61Sarah A. Quandt et al, "Illnesses and Injuries Reported by Latino Poultry Workers in Western North Carolina," American Journal of Industrial Medicine 49 (2006), 393–351; Ames Alexander, Kerry...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...the forefront of scholarship on the historical, political, and social dimensions of Cherokee Removal. Similarly, the "Social Memory and Memorialization" educational resource collects innovative Southern Spaces scholarship on such topics...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...from a subject position, the captured sexualities provide a physical and biological expression of "otherness" ; 4) as a category of "otherness," the captive body translates into a potential for...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...What do we mean by created? How equal, by what terms? These questions call forth the positionality of various loves alongside one another in cultural understanding and legal equality. In...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
Introduction In his 1983 book, The People Called Cajuns, James Dorman observes that Cajuns "rarely speak for themselves" in the various sources that refer to them—historical, biographical, or literary—but that...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...racial geography in Austin before addressing the political and economic factors that drove investment. Engaging with architectural theory, a subsequent section examines how New Urbanism and historical preservation altered the...
The Black Belt
...photographs from 1914 US Geological Survey “Cretaceous Deposits of the Eastern Gulf Region,” Selma, Alabama, ca. 1914. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in the...
Palomares Bajo
...Pictorial Cultures and Political Iconographies: Approaches, Perspectives, Case Studies from Europe and America, edited by Udo J. Hebel and Christoph Wagner (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2011), 316. Through my own camera lens,...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...music, but mostly avoids the pitfalls of documentary work's tendency to view its subject as a cultural and temporal Other. Harrison's candor about his personal connections to southern gospel, his...
"Aint that Something?"
...fill of Canard County," fifteen-year-old Dawn Jewell proclaims in the opening cartoon panel of Trampoline (1). Canard County is a fictional county in Eastern Kentucky. It's rural, poor, and white....