Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
...rice, corn, and other crops, and many plowed by oxen. While this Cuban valley may be a paradise of sorts, humans here are much more than spectators. Viñales farms are...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (New York: W. Morrow, 1986). To be sure, many clergy north of the Mason-Dixon line risked...
How I Shed My Skin
...racist points, over and over, with crude color-coded metaphors. Location of Jones County in North Carolina (top) and location of Pollocksville in Jones County, North Carolina (bottom). Maps by Southern Spaces, 2015. Faithfully reporting...
Call for Papers from The Southern Quarterly: Special Issue on "The Mississippi River and Southern Icons"
...of Microsoft Word documents to SouthernQuarterly@gmail.com are preferred over postal delivery. About the Journal: The Southern Quarterly is an internationally-known scholarly journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Southern arts...
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...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...stilts to help them survive frequent flooding. Powell Park now marks this area and its emotionally charged history—five major floods inundated the town in the twentieth century. Hurricane Matthew ravaged...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...bucked the Republican tide that was sweeping the "Solid South" (286). In early 1976, spurred by black activists and supported by the city's newly elected progressive white mayor, Joseph P....
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...as Cathy Cohen, José Esteban Muñoz, Siobhan Somerville, and Martin Manalansan, among many others, have treated queer as an analytic. I drew inspiration from how Eithne Luibhéid, Marc Stein, Margot...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...voting patterns over time. One of the things that I found striking about the maps was how distinct the South was visually in historical voting patterns. A dot density map...
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...