Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
Review The defeat of the Confederacy, the prospect of military occupation and Republican state government, and the financial collapse of many plantations and businesses sent a number of white southerners...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...by kin and community. Addie Bundren's body is both nearly lost in a river and consumed in a fire deliberately set by her own son, Darl; two of her other...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...never tamed its beauty" (4).10"The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky: An Address Delivered Before the Young Mens' [sic] Association of Burlington, NJ," (Burlington, NJ: 1852). Quoted courtesy of the Western Kentucky...
The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On
...latest technology: Princess phones played recorded messages and elaborate electric maps traced troop movements. A Mercury space capsule proudly perched nearby, an incongruous and yet resonant symbol of the unified...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...media sharing sites with wide adoption across the web—enables higher play back quality for video and audio clips. In addition to the new players on the Southern Spaces site, audio...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Somewhere Like Real Life: On Richard Linklater's Boyhood
...of them to lose a finger or worse. We expect this in part because most filmmakers would feel the need to add drama to the story, or to give the...
"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 Makers of the Sacred Harp
...people, places and historical moments. Essays addressing key elements in The Sacred Harp’s origin, development, and character comprise the first quarter of Makers, setting the stage for the book’s biographical...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...of Black exclusion from social, political and cultural belonging; our abjection from the realm of the human."1Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press,...