Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...ghost of a dead civilization, as the ghost of Hellenic culture was evoked in thirteenth- to fifteenth-century Italy," insisted that "surely nothing of that sort took place in the South."...
No Place
Video About the Author Minnie Bruce Pratt's books include The Sound of One Fork (1981), Yours in Stuggle (1984), We Say We Love Each Other (1985), Crime Against Nature (1990),...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...recounting her use of an article on our site in her teaching. Viewing Andrew M. Busch's Southern Spaces article "Crossing Over" on a phone. Screen capture of the new Southern...
Deep Ellum Blues
...has been a place where products are financed, brokered, and transported: leather and buffalo hides in the first place, followed by cotton and oil, clothing and technology. In fact, as...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...poorer farmers were content to raise crops each year and clear enough to do it all over again, and they were cautious in buying into the capital-intensive treadmill. While prosperous...
Besieged Terrain
...plants, and unique ecosystems. Native Kentuckian Reece knows natural history and is committed to specific places he lives in and loves. Krupa has the writing skills and broad knowledge to...
The Black Belt
...Black Belt as a region or place with majority-black population grew as a consequence of the expansion of slavery throughout the southern states. "I have often been asked to define...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...to rethink the geography, chronology, and social relations" of lynching practices (7), it does not quite succeed. The best essays examine lynchings and responses to lynchings outside the South, not...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...city will remind you of your safety obsession folly." diatribe, he shares a concern for wanting to preserve the place he lives in as a place of life, a concern...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...fifty years. The exodus continues today as black and white young people seek out places with better economic opportunities. “Outlands” suggests places that are not just rural but removed...