On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...canonical non-Native South, the post-southern non-Native South, and the most recent manifesto-driven incarnation, the New (but still pretty much non-Native) South. Instead, I argue that the South before the South...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...of slavery through landscape photography in his exhibition Elegy which I visited in January 2024 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Elegy features three photographic collections and two short...
Southern Spaces: A Partial History
...media Southern Spaces could accommodate. Southern Spaces homepage tablet display, 2016. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. As monitors grew and pixels shrank and the web's dominant aesthetic shifted from a three-dimensional...
New Pasts: Historicizing Immigration, Race, and Place in the South
...Much work in southern studies remains heavily influenced by black-white visions of the plantation South, Civil-War South, Jim-Crow South, and civil rights South, perspectives that render immigration invisible. Recent demographic...
McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America
...Indians were Indian because there was no definition. What did the Court look to determine whether Natives were Indians? Behaviors and stereotypes. They decided that Pueblo Indians were dimwitted, had...
From Arkansas with Love: Evangelical Crisis Management and Southern (White) Gospel Music
...took root in the southern uplands in the late 1800s has heavily influenced the music of southern gospel and its values.4Here, following Loyal Jones, "Southern Uplands" designates the regions and...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...exhibition on the X-codes into existence. The proposed exhibition is under the fiscal sponsorship of the Southern Documentary Fund. Moye can be contacted for submissions for this project at davismoye@bellsouth.net....
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...minds about the U. S. South and segregation. Recent histories have stressed a crucial difference between national and local television news and suggested that local television in the South helped...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...that was supposed to protect and negotiate with Indians. Between 1805 and 1827, the state held five lotteries to give away land that had belonged to the Muscogee Creek Indians....
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...South Carolina, 1981. Postcard. Courtesy of South Caroliniana Library and University of South Carolina. Next, Marquez moves from individual Latino experiences to the ways white southerners imagined and used “Latinoness”...