Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...estimated in April 2006 that "there must be 10,000 to 20,000 immigrant workers in the region by now, and the number is going to grow."3Sam Quinones, "Migrants Find a Gold...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...1850 and 1860 provide population statistics by nation of origin, providing the total number of German-born in each state. Compiled from the Original Returns of the Eighth U.S. Census 1860a-04,...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...problem, not a national one. Imagined Souths have been used to contain problems ranging from poverty and racial oppression to cultural backwardness and religious fanaticism. But if some monolithic fantasies...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...of canals through difficult marsh, "the very terrain which presents the problems, however, also contributes to the transportation solution" (20). What stands out is not the unruliness of wetlands as...
And the Prize Goes to...
...of creating scholarship. I had no idea how to tackle problems and solve them. I always just threw a bunch of secondary sources together and hoped to receive a decent...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...South African apartheid in 1994, Northern Ireland's 1998 peace is fraught with problems. Political interaction remains content/ious. A visit to the Museum of Free Derry revealed an awareness of the...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...problems with Franco's take on the Bundren family's quest to bury their mother's body is Franco's presence in it. Darl Bundren is Faulkner's most barely embodied character. This is what...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...New Orleans, and long afterward, too: solutions to foreseeable problems usually surfaced as afterthoughts” (49–50). Powell sees his hometown with bemused clarity. He largely avoids the traps of romanticizing his...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...white-on-red Choctaw problems with analogous eighteenth-century red-on-red and white-on-red conflicts. Placed in these contexts, the miniature narrative of the Peanut's removal and captivity is an indigenous narrative; just as the...