California Creek, North Carolina
...I-26 West, near mile 7, California Creek, NC 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. "I really can't comprehend the road or what it might look like years from now. I've...
The Shenandoah Valley
...stereotypes not only were badly mistaken but also purposefully circulated. Mountain residents grew the same crops, marketed them in the same commercial systems, and entered new local industries in the...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...Continuing bitterness is not far from the surface. One man carried a sign, initials only — KAI. A Northern Ireland student told us that meant "Kill All Irish." The next...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...Knowles, Anne Kelly. "Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities." Southern Spaces, October 31, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/has-historical-gis-arrived-review-toward-spatial-humanities. Nesbit, Scott, Andrew J. Torget, and Robert K. Nelson. "A Conversation...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...accounts of bondage, would hardly be expected to claim to be southerners and might understandably have identified themselves, once free, as radically "Different-From" the region where they had been denied...
Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...as such, advocating too forcefully on behalf of birth control measures "might innocently start some unwelcome comment"—particularly in the South. On account of this, Wenger generally advised that the PHS...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...uncritically or positively. Long-term residents of the central Eastside often linked New Urbanism's architecture and zoning changes with potential gentrification, requiring neighborhood groups to act defensively rather than as agents...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...nonracial rationale, the vast majority of the South’s private schools had become religion-based and remained nearly entirely segregated.2Ironically, the Court’s decision in Espinoza removes one of the few restrictions that...
Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local
...(1997). Currently, she is working on multiple projects about racial violence, trauma, and cultural memory situated in the period of the civil rights movement. Dr. Gwin also writes creative nonfiction,...