The Colonialist's Gaze
...appearance or dress. Anemia caused by hookworm decimated Puerto Rican rural workers. After the discoveries of Dr. Bailey Ashford, an effective clinical treatment became available in 1904.1For more on Ashford...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...Katherine Ledford and Theresa Lloyd "Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley" by Steve Bransford "'The Room that We're Able to Take Up': Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic" by Eric Solomon and...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...in the Atlantic World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017); Christopher D. E. Willoughby, "Running Away from Drapetomania: Samuel Cartwright, Medicine and Race in the Antebellum South," Journal...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...Castoriadis refers to as the "imaginary significations" that institute the social world proper to a society.12Cornelius Castoriadis, World in Fragments: Writing on Politics, Society, Psychoanalysis, and Imagination (Stanford: Stanford University...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...but the small-town, rural South was the site and subject of their most recognized work. The vivid immediacy of their photographs—and their ubiquity in magazines, books, and exhibits—has made it...
The Morning with Many Tongues
...has received fellowships and grants from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, the University of Wisconsin, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Jerome Foundation, and Stanford University where he...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...primarily Cherokee and Creek, who escaped the Trail of Tears and took refuge in remote regions such as the Okefenokee. The great swamp also was a hiding spot for runaway...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...Extended For 2022," Stanford Giving, March 14, 2022, https://giving.stanford.edu/stories/cares-act-not-extended-for-2022/. Because ESA puts money "directly" in the hands of marginalized people, such direct contributions to individuals are not tax-exempt. The COVID...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...York: Oxford University Press, 1973) and The Machine in the Garden (New York: Oxford University Press, 1964). While I discuss Sibley's use of the pastoral, this essay focuses on her mysteries set...
Joseph Crespino Interviews Thomas Mullen, Author of Darktown
...Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution (Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2007) and co-editor, with Matthew Lassiter, of The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)....