Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality
Review Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry, Cambridge University Press, 2011. In a few days, well before the first mosquito-killing frost reaches the South Carolina Lowcountry, I’ll head...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...band of states that stretches westward from the former Confederacy through the southwest to southern California. From L.B.J. to George W. Bush, every president has come from one of these...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...just southerners) took up Confederate symbols as signs of rebellion. As the southern rock of the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd filled the soundscape, Eggleston could not resist playing this...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
John McWilliams, Hampton Plantation, McClellanville, South Carolina, 1973. In the early 1970s, John was teaching photography at Georgia State University when we discovered McClellanville through Robert Frank’s photograph “Barber shop...
Editorial Style Guide
...a whole is to simply use "the South" or "southern" whenever possible. South: Southern Spaces prefers writing that treats "the South" as an imagined geography that has had important political...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...the South, while southern Ohioans and Indianans exhibited a more virulent form of racism than did their fellow Midwesterners or other northerners. Salafia argues that the latter part of that...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...electing the nation's president and the House of Representatives. During much of the first half of the nineteenth century, most southern states followed the leadership of South Carolina's John C....
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...Power: Communication in the Early American South, Frontiers of Science affirms that we must look south to fully understand that a range of variegated landscapes and populations have shaped the...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...the US South, 1997–2007." Southern Spaces, June 10, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997–2007. Spitzer, Nick. "Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." Southern Spaces, November 28, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/creolization-cultural-continuity-and-creativity-postdiluvian-new-orleans-and-beyond....
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...on. It bears multiple viewings. There are more things you can find, not only related to the South but to global capitals' mediation of "Southernness," especially Londoners, especially film and...