Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...will become a "world-class" city with references to enhancing the dynamics of distribution, promoting a revitalized downtown, building sports arenas, expanding the zoo, redeveloping the riverfront, and promoting the city's...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...threw up the first levees. No one had bothered before the floods, Powell dryly points out. “But this was how things went in New Orleans before New Orleans officially became...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Gulfport, Mississippi, 2005." Southern Spaces, September 1, 2008, https://southernspaces.org/2008/barge-washed-ashore-after-hurricane-katrina-gulfport-mississippi-2005. Moye, Dorothy. "Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition." Southern Spaces, August 26, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/katrina-5-x-code-exhibition. ———. "The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript." Southern...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...October 27, 2007. Photograph by Flickr user psychdelicfivecats. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, North Carolina school bus. Photograph by Flickr user Dale Moore. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...happened at Mr. S's house. I grabbed my little brother's hand as my older sister grabbed mine and we headed out. When my mother got home that evening, I knew...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...life in a region where Spanish-speaking migrants and immigrants are variously welcomed, tolerated, and scorned. In recent years, Latin American immigrants comprised the largest population of new arrivals to Atlanta:...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...States of America," 1794, courtesy of Flickr user Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Adapted by Eric Solomon. Contributors "interrogate new approaches that have broadened the archive and conceptual scope...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...even know that people elsewhere all over the country was suffering from want." —Donald Harington’s “Vance Randolph” character in Butterfly Weed1Donald Harington, Butterfly Weed (New Milford, CT: The Toby Press,...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...Rivers, Langston Hughes Lobby, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, New York, May 22, 2011. Flickr photograph by Matt Kingston. This public art installation...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...“new style” Sacred Harp promoted by David and Clarke adopted the practice, widespread elsewhere, of opening and closing with prayer. These actions violated the Decorum of the Alabaha River Primitive...