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...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...Southern whites of moderate means, who were oppressed by a small aristocracy of wealthy slaveholders. Title page of The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It, New York,...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
Review I adored Beasts of the Southern Wild and have seen it three times: each viewing a quick incursion into the southern surreal. Benh Zeitlin's movie has received a nomination...
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...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Yazoo-Mississippi floodplain. The eastern boundary is defined by a series of bluffs that begin just below Memphis and run south to Greenwood and thence southwesterly along the Yazoo River, which...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...half (46 percent) of all Americans who want to deny 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...
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,...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...to economic production, racial restrictions have been extreme. But even within the South, there are sub-regional distinctions in the operation of race. References to Upper, Lower, Border, and Deep South...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...in the US—to be white people descended from Scot-Irish, emigrants, fleeing poverty in Europe, moving from the eastern seaports of the US further south and east, looking for cheap land —...