Mississippi Delta
...century later, writer Richard Ford called the Delta "the South's South." In the 1990s, historian James Cobb referred to it as the "most southern place on earth." Few other regions...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...to learn differing local white rules of Jim Crow if and when they moved to new places across the southern states—and even in the same city where rules applied differently...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...for me to walk into Ken’s office in the first place. I have been working in the digital humanities and on digital projects for about fifteen years. Despite how terrible...
Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
...of a substantial number of prosperous black Atlantans, we might imagine that African American Muslims are more likely to live in Atlanta than in Chicago in the same neighborhoods or...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Rainey in 1924.1Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, vocal performance of "See See Rider Blues" by Ma Rainey and Lena Arant, recorded October 16, 1924, by Paramount, catalogue number 12252, 78 rpm. With "Betty and Dupree,"...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...into place and social space into places invested with meaning. Storytelling, for instance, is a brilliantly productive mode of place-making.7Nicholas J. Entrikin, The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...and bureaucratic struggle over segregation. The history of these places offers new insights into the way states and localities utilized federal programs and dollars to bolster Jim Crow and extend...
Submission Guidelines
...conventional ways of understanding the people, places, and cultures throughout the South. Reviews should also assess the work’s significance to space and place, situating the material under consideration within relevant historiographies...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the two concepts. They suggest that in spite of diasporic indigenous persons' relationships to multiple places—a lost homeland, a current abode, a far-away site of work—and to multiple identities—clan, tribal,...
Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...Tremé’s contributions are to jazz, no less significant is its place in the Afro-Creole protest tradition. Homeré Adolphe Plessy, who is best remembered for losing the US Supreme Court case that...