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...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...For example, researchers calculate the number of Latinos attending schools with more than 50% minority enrollments in district X divided by the total number of Latinos in school district X....
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
Review Building on a rich literature that explores the spatial dimensions of US race relations and capital formation, Andrew Kahrl's The Land Was Ours traces the histories of African American...
"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...freed Blacks "could be made to believe anything. If they would not listen to good advice," he insisted, "they must go on until they found everything eaten up, and then...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...with blue light and an image of things to come. He saw a mojo waving good-bye, one tiny black finger at a time, good-bye, dear Bobo, we'll never forget you,...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...we have good relationships with several centers. At Richmond, we don’t have any particularly deep collaborative relationships with other digital humanities centers, though we do benefit from their work, and...
The Potential of Historical GIS and Spatial Analysis in the Humanities
Presentation Question and Answer Session About the Speaker S. Wright Kennedy is a doctoral candidate in the History Department at Rice University. His primary area of interest is the integration...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...interest to the critical study of space, place, and southernness. Southern Spaces blog posts are non-peer-reviewed publications that are often topical and timely pieces of commentary, and/or descriptions of websites, exhibitions,...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...Bluesman Floyd Lee filmed a portion of his bio-pic here, and websites feature the Lounge in English and French. The Hiter family gave Mr. Seaberry a lifetime lease on the...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...lights on, businesses like Wal-Mart are becoming the major employers. When mines close and the number of miners decreases, company housing may deteriorate, be abandoned, or replaced by mobile homes....