Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...and its regions, or to issues of space and place. We welcome contributions and projects relating to any time period or musical genre and from any (inter)disciplinary framework. We especially...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, sixtieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, and the centennial of the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. While we welcome...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...and Weiner acknowledges, much of this evidence is problematic because it was filtered through white interviewers and collectors. Weiner's thoroughly documented and well-organized book is a welcome addition to medical...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...scholarly work and refine our antiracist policies. We understand that social justice and change only come from sustained efforts, and we welcome your help and suggestions in keeping us accountable....
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
Introduction I remembered back to my coming-out days in San Antonio, Texas, in the early 1960s and realized that I had lived long enough and been out long enough to...
Bodies and Souls
...Before Sister Manette took on the clinic, there had been no healthcare available in Jonestown for 15 years. Jonestown, Mississippi Welcome Sign, November 4, 2011. Photograph by Wikimedia Commons user chillin662....
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...monolithic "South," interrogates historical geographies over time, and maps expressive cultural forms associated with place. We welcome submissions from scholars, photographers, journalists, and artists in such areas as geography; southern...
Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838
...the post, the men received some six hundred pounds of rice as well, surely a welcome relief.38See for example A. R. Hetzel payment to James W. Erwin, Oct. 20, 1837,...
Reckoning with Enslavement
Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...1980s when Latino racialization shifted from a provisional whiteness to a distinct marginalized group that, on the surface, received a warm welcome. Márquez brings important attention to Dalton, Georgia, an...