Besieged Terrain
...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...Anglophone Caribbean's plantation zone. The founding of a settlement that became Charleston, South Carolina, by a group of planters from Barbados in the 1670s functions as the analytical core of...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...racial disparity burdens only a small number of minority voters in a small, rural polling place, does the relatively "small" size of the harm argue against a finding of a...
Genres of Southern Literature
...southern modernism, the southern grotesque, and yes, even "grit lit." Genre in Relation to History and Historical Coverage Staircase at Square Books, Oxford, Missippi, July 5, 2006. Photograph by Flickr...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...exemplars of our site's improved display of images. A blog post by Mark Auslander on a lynching reenactment that crossed paths with a Confederate flag rally features a variety of...
The Crowd He Becomes
...the bombed-out church, minutes after, a face he's seen before, flash on the shards of phone-booths and broken windows he'll follow through the horrid and the horrified while the cops...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...Dan Albergotti lived in St. Matthews until age four, when his family moved to Florence. Albergotti currently directs the creative writing program at Coastal Carolina University in Conway. He earned...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...an all-white restaurant, or to momentarily avoid a racial indignity. Some white leaders openly acknowledged what a large number of various skin complexions meant in the real life of...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...health and healing where there were small numbers of Black patients.11Fett, Working Cures. Gonaver warns us not to read Galt's attitude as any kind of emancipatory rhetoric, but as representing...