Southern Spaces Recommends
...people just trying to live, trying to figure out why working so hard and being held up as the salt of the earth—while being denied all that they need to...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...University of Virginia Press, 2013); William D. Carrigan and Clive Webb, Forgotten Dead: Mob Violence Against Mexicans in the United States, 1848–1928 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); and Michael J....
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...still live in the closet, and many, the "evidence suggests," are married to women.2Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, "How Many American Men are Gay?," The New York Times, December 7, 2013, accessed December...
Writing Appalachia
...Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQBiXDNVeSA); Buckwild (http://www.mtv.com/shows/ buckwild/series.jhtml), Squidbillies (https://www.adultswim.com/search?q=squidbillies), and Saturday Night Live's "Appalachian Emergency Room" (http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/appalachian-emergency-room/n12005/). Distorted though they may be, those two views of Appalachia are...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...the solution was obvious: white women were themselves partly to blame. They were leading unhealthy lives, exacerbated by the emotional influence of their reproductive systems. They were also endangered—as black...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
Essay A just-released report from the Southern Education Foundation—"The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation"—finds that more than 5.7 million children lived in extreme...
The Complete Oh-OK: Music as Child’s Play in Athens, Georgia
...have a sort of raw, naïve sound.” In the music magazines, critics often described these aural qualities as the “southern” sound of the music. For people that lived there, however,...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...lives intersected with and/or shaped Tampa and Ybor City, McNamara asks readers to “rethink what it means to be of Cuban descent, live in Florida, survive in the South, and...
Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature
...(as well as American) literature.8A list partial and incomplete would include James Agee, Dorothy Allison, Raymond Andrews, Maya Angelou, Harriette Arnow, Doris Betts, Arna Bontemps, Olive Ann Burns, George Washington...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...1930. Brochure by Advertising Service Agency. Courtesy of Daniel A. Pollock. Kytle and Roberts inventory various iterations of the dominant slavery narrative and provide valuable details that include microhistories of...