Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...negotiated complex and changing structures of racial discrimination, segregation, and exclusion in the Jim Crow and Sun Belt souths. The Land Was Ours explores the inner workings of black communities...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008),...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...Atlanta's history, politics, and the arts converge ... [They are] responsible for some of the most prominent aural and visual aesthetics that have come to define the South."1 Fahamu Pecou, phone...
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
...https://southernspaces.org/2005/elegy-native-guards. ———. "Geography." January 11, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/geography. ———. "Jake Adam York interviews Natasha Trethewey." June 25, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/jake-adam-york-interviews-natasha-trethewey. ———. "Theories of Time and Space." June 20, 2005. https://southernspaces.org/2005/theories-time-and-space. Interviews Albergotti,...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...Hall Photography in 2000 and pursues documentary interests in areas of midwifery and southern culture. About the Filmmaker A native of Chester, South Carolina, James L. Hughes III is currently...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the number of challengers in 2016 is likely to decline even further. Our neighboring South Carolina offers a window into the future. In this most recent election less than 25...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
...toward other rural and urban areas known as "new settlement" destinations. Potential employment opportunities fueled migration to southern cities as well as attracted a growing number of foreign-born workers. Unlike...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...Deal and the Origins of Our Time (New York: Liveright, 2013). State Parks For Negroes Exhibit, State Fair Grounds, Richland County, South Carolina, 1958. Photograph by unknown creator, South Carolina...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...our understanding of the importance of African American women—particularly those ensnared in the South's penal system—in the making of New South modernity. It demonstrates the centrality of the carceral regime...