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....
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Chattahoochee Valley within the context of the southeastern ecoregions, as reported by the US Environmental Protection Agency. Map by Stephanie Bryan, 2020. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. Blues scholar David Evans...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
Roadside Memorials in the US South In 2003, I began an odyssey through several states photographing makeshift memorials to departed loved ones found alongside the highways of the Southeast. In...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...across the South well before then. Writing in 1891, Black academic William Scarborough described one of the New South's most unpleasant innovations as the "the novelty of three waiting rooms—one...
Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights
...developed, financed, designed, and constructed by African Americans for African American residents.2See Betsy Riley, "Collier Heights awarded Local Historic district status," Atlanta Magazine, May 16, 2013, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/civilrights/collier-heights-awarded-local-historic-district-status/; U.S. Department of the...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...adopted Southeast Indian sons effectively thwarted state and federal claims to their lands, so much so that Southern slaveholders advocated for the forced removal of Southeast Indian nations west of...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...When New York Disses The South,"Complex Magazine, July 1, 2010, http://www.complex.com/music/2010/07/hate-of-the-union-when-new-york-disses-the-south/; Darren E. Grem, "'The South Got Something to Say': Atlanta's Dirty South and the Southernization of Hip-hop America,"Southern Cultures...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...undocumented immigrants any means citizenship are southerners, primarily white southerners.1Robert P. Jones, Daniel Cox, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, E.J. Dionne, Jr., and William A. Galston, What Americans Want from Immigration Reform in 2014: Findings from...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Both Africans and Afro-descendants accessed them and fought for them through the courts, a relatively remarkable phenomenon—in light of the documented difficulty that many Africans had to access courts of...
Deep Ellum Blues
...a mile or so to the south and east of this neighborhood, I saw the black neighborhoods around Fair Park, neighborhoods which I understood to be South Dallas (i.e. black...