Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...stubborn resistance of black farmers and their supporters.1Pete Daniel, Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013). The...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...an in-depth interview with Trethewey, and eight critical essays. Southern Spaces is happy to have supported the Southern Quarterly by granting permission to include a number of images of Trethewey...
An Oyster by Any Other Name
...local flavor, a bacchanalia fitting the surrounding party. Kelly Yandell, Elm Grove oysters, Galveston, Texas, 2011. Mad Island, Elm Grove, Todd’s Dump, Possum Pass, Bayou Cook, Pepper Grove, and Ladies...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...catalyzed reciprocal travel among fledgling Sacred Harp singing groups in Europe. Reciprocal travel, which helped sustain a plethora of rural southern singings in the wake of massive out-migration during the...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...this tragedy on a more personal and intimate level, to show how Katrina touched the lives of specific yet unknown individuals. Photographs such as Church Interior, Interior of Firehouse Saloon,...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...for?" In Florida, confusion over the voting eligibility of thousands of ex-felons has a number of interest groups involved in a campaign to clarify the voter rolls across the state....
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...an anemic "spokes-on-a-wheel" system of ill-funded, mostly unimproved local-destination roads filled in the gaps from farm to railroad depot and enabled horse and wagon travel where railroads didn't go. Ingram...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
The Mere Region by Robert Jackson A critical review of some of T.S. Eliot's narrowly ideological invocations of region encourages us to clarify and redefine the term, for Eliot's own...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...As the major railroad hub in the South, Atlanta became a commercial and financial center. Although the city's business leadership was a new elite, its economy depended on many ways...
Deep Ellum Blues
...Dallas onwards, which treated Deep Ellum as "Harlem in Miniature," "Deep Elem Blues" has served as the emblematic song of the blues experience in Dallas (though it shares a number...