The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
Blog post In a case decided on the grounds of religious freedom, the US Supreme Court took another big step on June 30 in supporting religious discrimination in publicly financed...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
Blog post Mother Jones died ninety years ago, but she was back in Alabama this July. It was not her first visit to the state. She came to Birmingham and...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...Environments and Ecologies Indigenous Souths Queer Souths Reading and Writing Souths Religion Social Memory and Memorialization Southern Screens Southern Spaces will update our educational resources as we publish new scholarship,...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...West Virginia has changed significantly since I grew up there. One change that I mourn is the way the dialect and accent are being lost among younger people. Exposure to...
The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project
...in-text track changes and editing programs. Having selected Flags in the Dust, a user can click Show Locations from the map controls to see the various locations (both inside and...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...persistence in traditional farming practices within or despite culture change.14B. Orlove and S. Brush, "Anthropology and the conservation of biodiversity," Annual Review of Anthropology 25 (1996), 329-352. In Heirloom Seeds...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...this exchange. As for examining the material world and creating change, will talking about hybridity affect any aspect of the worlds we live in? If so, let us identify this...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...trees and the storehouse his father had built. Terms: stiginnee: practitioner of witchcraft, usually an old person who is reputedly able to change forms and to act upon the minds...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
..."fundamentally" change depending on place. That difficulty, as well as the desirous and imaginative work it requires, brings us back to something like the postracial. This claim may seem a...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...of him that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. —The Tempest Wifredo Lam's The Jungle, gouache on paper mounted on canvas, 1943. Photograph by...