Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...between postwar travel writing about the South and southern local color fiction, noting that both genres "generally presented the region as an object for analysis, a confounding book of riddles,...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Spaces, January 17, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/unhappy-trails-big-easy-public-spaces-and-square-called-congo. Trethewey, Natasha. "Geography." Southern Spaces, January 11, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/geography. Saikku, Mikko. "Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta." Southern Spaces, January 28, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/bioregional-approach-southern-history-yazoo-mississippi-delta....
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...home state of Florida, which is statistically tied with Georgia as the highest percentage of any “southern” state. And this number, of course, reflects only those who disclose. While sixty...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...16, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/back-future-mapping-workers-across-global-south. Hill, Sarah H. "Cherokee Removal Scenes: Elijay, Georgia, 1838." Southern Spaces, August 23, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838. Kirpalani, Neeta and Emily Jackson. "Birth Right." Southern Spaces, January 12, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/birth-right...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...Amazonia, and peripheries of the coffee belt in the Brazilian southeast.1Anne Eller, We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016);...
Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...American South. His numerous essays and reviews appear in such journals as the Southern Literary Journal, Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, American Literature, Southern Studies, Studies in American Humor, American Quarterly,...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Foreign Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), reviewed in Southern Spaces at https://southernspaces.org/2018/slaveholding-empire-southerners-federal-authority-and-slave-power-abroad. Walker's notion of Texas as a safety valve proved enticing to many northern Democrats and Paulus...
The Liminal Site
...Topographically if not quite culturally, Birmingham sits where the post-plantation Deep South in which I lived and worked from 1995 to 2010 meets the Appalachian South near which I grew...