Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
Southwestern Humor Southwestern humor is perhaps the most intriguing of southern antebellum literary genres, for writers of this loose-knit "school," often contributors to sporting or gentlemen's magazines, abandoned the plantation...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Klux Klan held a pro-Confederate flag rally at the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia. Many other "Protect the Flag" rallies popped up, mainly in the South. The Southern Poverty...
Editors
...a professor of African American and African Studies and History at the University of Virginia. She has authored The Rise and Fall of the Garvey Movement in the Urban South, 1918–1942 (Routledge,...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...are in extreme poverty were in the South.2 The Southern Education Foundation's South includes fifteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee,...
Writing Appalachia
...seek is scattered to the four quarters of the internet.1Websites for locating Appalachian writing include Documenting the American South (docsouth.unc.edu) and Making of America (quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moagrp/). Additionally, many specialized anthologies of...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...our understanding of the importance of African American women—particularly those ensnared in the South's penal system—in the making of New South modernity. It demonstrates the centrality of the carceral regime...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
Community Building in a New South City Atlanta offers a sharp perspective of the Black experience in the urban South during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The emergence of its...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Kansas and the South while analyzing how Kansans created a "Free State Legend" and made themselves the not-South. Campney insists that too many scholars reduce racist violence to lynching3Campney uses...
How I Shed My Skin
...racist points, over and over, with crude color-coded metaphors. Location of Jones County in North Carolina (top) and location of Pollocksville in Jones County, North Carolina (bottom). Maps by Southern Spaces, 2015. Faithfully reporting...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...