The Carolina Piedmont
...by linguist Hans Kurath separating the American South's two major dialect groupings, the South Midland and Southern Coastal. Retaining inflections of Midlands English and Lowland Scottish dialects, adapting their own...
Something True about Louisiana: HBO's True Detective and the Petrochemical America Aesthetic
...Ecology," Southern Spaces, February 13, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/2013/beasts-southern-wild-and-dirty-ecology. The trash in True Detective is not luminous, and the whimsy is full of terror. Light, here, is anticlimactic—as in the final battle...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...in the US South and Hate and Extremism nationwide, visit the Southern Poverty Law Center. In addition, visit Robert T. Gonzalez, "An Interactive Map of Racist, Homophobic and Ableist Tweets...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...Creek people come from, we feel that this is an important place to have this discussion. Craig Womack, Dustin, Oklahoma, 2015. Screenshot from Hearing the Call. Courtesy of Southern Spaces....
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...the US South, 1997–2007." Southern Spaces, June 10, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997–2007. Spitzer, Nick. "Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." Southern Spaces, November 28, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/creolization-cultural-continuity-and-creativity-postdiluvian-new-orleans-and-beyond....
A City Divided
...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998). Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...as the largest urban center in the American South could not be sidestepped. "The Games pose the question about just which image is closer to the real South," Peter Applebome...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...ordinary southern women and men in the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina. Throughout his discography, the South looms large as an incubator of his cultural, religious, and political sensibilities. Kee's...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...for Southern Equality v. Bryant, the Court allowed the law to go into effect (legally in force) and ensured that Jim Crow by another name again be the law of...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Foreign Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), reviewed in Southern Spaces at https://southernspaces.org/2018/slaveholding-empire-southerners-federal-authority-and-slave-power-abroad. Walker's notion of Texas as a safety valve proved enticing to many northern Democrats and Paulus...