Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Northwest_Austin_Mun_Utility_Dist_No_One_v_Holder_129_S_Ct_2504_1. Like opponents to Section 5, Roberts cited increases in black and Hispanic voter registration and in the number of elected officials as evidence of how much the South has...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...in mind, I compare the public health systems in the United States and Brazil, the right to public health, and the COVID-19 vaccine. Digital flyer for vaccine awareness by the...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/highlighting-charlestons-african-american-history-through-lowcountry-digital-history-initiative. Bransford, Steve, Michael Page, and Anthony Martin. "St. Catherines Island Flyover." Southern Spaces, July 14, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/st-catherines-island-flyover. Hagood, Taylor. "The Digital Yoknapawtawpha Project." Southern Spaces, January 22, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/digital-yoknapatawpha-project....
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...Johns narrative muddies the waters and, as Patricia Yaeger puts it, "make[s] the usual expectations strange." Frontispiece for Mary Smith Captivity Narrative, 1815 Conclusion Let me turn, finally and briefly,...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
Photo Essay Map of Memphis Neighborhoods (Base Map Data: US Census Bureau) Photographer's Statement While I didn't seek out hand-painted signs, I noticed their emergence as a pattern in my...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the Canary Islands, and such Native American tribes as the Houma, Bayou Goula, and Choctaw. A big aligator, about 800 lbs. Photograph by ST Blessing. Courtesy of The Miriam and...
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...persistence." Hundreds of scientists have contributed to the development of WWF's Conservation Science Program and identified over 800 distinct terrestrial ecoregions across the globe.1Robert G. Bailey, Description of the Ecoregions...