Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
...perceived as problem tenants. And the vision of public housing (at least by some housing reformers) as an affordable option for the worthy poor was replaced by caustic images of...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...the rustbelt cities of the Midwest and Northeast, the metropolitan centers of Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, and Charlotte seemed much more appealing than their northern and midwestern counterparts.8Carol B. Stack, Call...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...Montgomery to Birmingham; from Birmingham to Atlanta; from Atlanta down the west coast of Florida to Key West and up the east coast of Florida to Savannah and then home...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...In addition to musical recording and touring, Leavell manages his pine forested Charlane Plantation located in Twiggs County, Georgia. To help shape policy and to promote sound forestry management practices...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
.../ Southern Spaces," Southern Spaces welcomes submissions from scholars, activists, and artists who stand in this intersectional space and raise these critical questions. Southern Spaces asks contributors to consider what...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...national parks today, many African Americans continue to feel unwelcome in such places. "[M]arking this racialized history can be potentially advantageous as a way of drawing new visitors. Most important,...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...public health and specific geographies—both real and imagined—in and across the US and global South. The journal welcomes projects relating to any time period or genre. Interdisciplinary frameworks, critical approaches...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...welcomed the ruling this week, suggesting that it helps set a significant precedent regarding the relationship between library intiatives and copyright laws. "This ruling is significant for all libraries and universities because...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...trends related to migration, de-industrialization, the rise of the service economy, the importance of tourism, race relations, violence, and working-class struggles. To this end, we welcome full panels on a...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...and in Southern poetry and fiction, film, music, popular culture, and art. Interdisciplinary articles that focus on more than one of these areas are especially welcome. Manuscripts should run between...