Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...October 27, 2007. Photograph by Flickr user psychdelicfivecats. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Bottom, North Carolina school bus. Photograph by Flickr user Dale Moore. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...his mind flooded with dozens of cases of FHA discrimination. For example, he observed that, since he moved to Elbert County in 1952, the number of black farmers fell from...
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
...floats, barely visible through the early spring fog, advanced noisily down the seawall. Our targets—a consideration of oyster appellations and a revaluing of fish previously dismissed as trash—intermittently floated up...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...every year in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas, and Florida—states where this musical form has existed since the mid-nineteenth century—new singings have been held in other areas of the United States...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...the front door in its frame propped up by two flowerpots in which she had just planted new flowers. Earlier she had told me that she and her neighbors were...
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....
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...as any. The fluidity of American culture — and I think ultimately region in the United States must be defined not politically or legally but in the most inclusive cultural...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...system became known, had its full flowering in cities like Atlanta where economic access, political power, and social interaction were denied or severely restricted. Blacks were confined to the lowest...
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...