Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...States and some of her fellow American writers. The volume, entitled Useful Knowledge and published in 1928, contains a "Valentine to Sherwood Anderson" and "A Second Portrait of Carl Van...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...the promise of a coherent and distinctive effort but whose constitutive features remain contested. Hey Y'all, November 10, 2012. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user Gregory Morris. Creative Commons license CC...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...Dasgupta, "New Geospatial Bill Raises Questions on Private Industry Use, Academic Research, and Digital India." The Wired (May 10, 2016): http://thewire.in/35044/new-geospatial-bill-raises-a-hundred-questions-on-private-industry-use-academic-research-and-digital-india/. A New Map of Africa, the Latest Authorities, 1811....
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...as Mohl’s documenting this demographic shift offered important insights into the labor and settlement experiences of migrants, there was often little work done to use the geographical imaginary of a...
History: The Parlor
...as the one built by Samuel Snoddy before his marriage, would also include some sort of sitting room intended for the family's private use. Material culture researchers frequently refer to...
Birdhouses
...bluebird house he'd nailed to the top of a post. The day was overcast, but enough light fell on the house that it caught my eye—such a quiet, cool, and...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...a sixteen-room French Quarter townhouse, donning the mask of urban sophisticate. It was as if he were striving to recreate the lifestyle of planter patriarchs who used to divide their...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...the white southern middle-class, Braden grew up to critique the language of white supremacy and use her sharp intelligence and pragmatic skills as a journalist at the Anniston Star, the...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...artists in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Featuring the photography of Eric Waters and the paintings and mixed-media exhibitions of Radcliffe Bailey and Epaul Julien, this chapter considers the (mis)use...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...increased use of formerly segregated sites led whites to abandon public spaces in favor of private facilities. States and cities steadily withdrew support for public parks and recreation.2Kevin M. Kruse,...