Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...Plan of Splendid Property and Two Fine Lots of Ground, Second District, March 12, 1860. Plan Book 005.018, New Orleans Notarial Archives. In the 1840s and ‘50s, New Orleans was...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Review In this short book, distinguished political scientist Adolph L. Reed, Jr. offers remembrances from his early life below the Mason-Dixon line as a member of the last African American...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...books and journals were published in Japanese, with the exception of a few academic journals published in US journals. The translation that appears in this article is by the author....
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...The author's choice of Middle Florida makes sense considering the book's time frame: 1820-1920. From the Territorial era through the Great War (the other great war), Middle Florida commanded the...
Kara Walker's Blood Sugar: A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby
...and of life-size sculptures made out of molasses-covered resin. The exhibit offers no flyers, captions, or explanations, only a release form informing us that we enter the building at our...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...original book seeks answers to that question. My own introduction to black lung began in the winter of 1971–1972, when I came to West Virginia to work for the Black...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...transformation, and both manifest the qualities of dedication and determination in moving toward that goal. Blair Mountain March and Rally, Day Six, Blair Mountain, West Virginia, June 11, 2011. Flickr...
The Carolina Piedmont
...traditional white culture, its Protestant patriarchal authority and habits of industry, its merchants' bookkeeping practices. The Modern Piedmont The modern Carolina Piedmont gathered steam through the 1870s and 1880s. Completion...
Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire
...the book. This migration between the British Caribbean and the Lowcountry establishes important continuities as the Barbadians brought with them their slaves, planting practices, capital, and racial ideologies. This is...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...inverting it as a pair of West Virginians try to repair their new vacation home in the mountains and are repeatedly harassed by a group of college kids convinced that...