Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...of southwest Virginia; Rufus W. Holsinger of Charlottesville, Virginia; and many others. Black community photographers in the South, including P. H. Polk of Tuskegee, Alabama, Richard Samuel Roberts of Columbia,...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...contribute to tenure and promotion, we are sharing details of Southern Spaces' readership reports process in this post. Southern Spaces visits, September 1, 2012–August 31, 2013. Screenshot from Google Analytics....
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...years African Americans had transformed from a primarily rural and southern population to a primarily urban and non-southern one. Certainly now more information is available. However, with the exception of...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...
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...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...southern by the Southern Education Foundation have enrolled a majority of low-income students in each of the last three years.1Available data for 2004–2006. The Southern Education Foundation considers the following...
Mapping Souths
...this discovery." See "The Position and Course of the South," DeBow's Review of the Southern and Western States 2.2 (February 1851): 231. In reality, if North and South formed two...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...the Lowcountry Digital Library at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. With grant support from the Humanities Council of South Carolina and a major award from the Gaylord and Dorothy...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...Douglas Gomery explains, de facto racial segregation in movie theaters was common outside the South as well, but was dictated more by "residential patterns of use." Some southern locales contained...
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...chain, refused to carry the issue: "Some of the images are disturbing—and moving—like quilter Gwen Magee's Southern Heritage/Southern Shame, which depicts five lynching victims hanging in front of a Confederate...