Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...the least thing he is interested in is a well-chosen word in English. Some people may think it odd to hear Lot’s wife referred to as "Old Lady Lot." Church...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...satisfactory description of Jim Crow, it is difficult to assess the efforts of activists to dismantle it. Second, while Behnken provides compelling insights into the strange career of whiteness in...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...while Mississippi, most intolerant, is far from fabulous; it is, Slattery writes, a "failed" state. According to both Silver and Stephens-Davidowitz, Mississippi has failed the tolerance test; it is the...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...It Were) the 'Negro Problem' in The Birth of the Nation," in The Birth of a Nation: The Cinematic Past in the Present, ed. Michael T. Martin (Bloomington: Indiana University...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...as its government formally abolished caste distinctions and chattel slavery after it gained independence in 1821. Additionally, Mexico had engaged in a war with pro-slavery Anglo settlers in Texas during...
Genres of Southern Literature
...States, was beginning to understand itself in terms of cultural and political difference—in terms of what its way of life was not, and what it was positioned against. In the...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...members who comprise the Court's conservative wing on controversies of race, Justice Alito upholds Arizona law that invalidates a voter's entire ballot if it is cast in the wrong precinct...
The Crowd He Becomes
...the crush of lookers in cigarette smoke, in the breath of many lungs, common, innocuous, a cloud about to disappear. * Will stand imagining him split at each intersection, now...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
...the role of place in his poetry, and how he relates to the idea of the "Southern writer." Part 2: Natasha Trethewey Interviews Dan Albergotti Part 3: Natasha Trethewey Interviews Dan Albergotti...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...access. Like our section menu and social media sharing buttons, it's out of the way but always present if you need it. The design of individual publications on the new...