Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...trends related to migration, de-industrialization, the rise of the service economy, the importance of tourism, race relations, violence, and working-class struggles. To this end, we welcome full panels on a...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...and in Southern poetry and fiction, film, music, popular culture, and art. Interdisciplinary articles that focus on more than one of these areas are especially welcome. Manuscripts should run between...
"Puerto Ricans Live Free": Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape
Introduction Buenaventura Lakes, Florida. Data from the 2010 Census, Hispanic population according to county. Map courtesy of Southern Spaces. One of the largest Puerto Rican enclaves in Greater Orlando, Buenaventura...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...personal reckoning and welcome revisions in how they take care of themselves and other people in their lives. However, many COVID-19 lessons and changes are likely to fade, including some that...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi is a welcome and much-needed investigation into the unlikely survival and surprising success of this remarkable indigenous community. About the Author Claudio Saunt is the Richard...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...welcomes them). "There is no Americano dream," he writes. "There is only the American dream created by an Anglo-Protestant society. Mexican-Americans will share in that dream and in that society...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...volume. This comparative approach that examines lynching across sectional boundaries is a welcome addition. The ten essays that comprise Lynching Beyond Dixie examine lynching practices, as well as acts of...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...When her plane landed, the “Pacific breeze” blew through her hair and welcomed her to Los Angeles. Soon, however, she started to miss the straight up “boys from Alabama” and...
Call for Proposals for the Second Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Politics Identity and Place in a Global Southern City Proposals for papers, talks, multi-media presentations, or round-table discussions should be no more than 400 words. We welcome proposals on any...
The Bulletin—August 21, 2012
...lamb, chicken, and catfish for federal food nutrition assistance programs, including food banks and school lunch and breakfast programs. This announcment is welcome news for farmers and ranchers across the...