Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...a fully-fledged movement since we started in 2004. News of our endeavor spread quickly as we hammered, stapled, and stretched chicken wire on our new coop, most of which we...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...be considered progressive if it were adopted even now.13John Nolen, City Planning Report: St. Petersburg Today, St. Petersburg Tomorrow (St. Petersburg, FL: St. Petersburg City Planning Board, 1923), https://friendsofsaltcreek.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/St-Petersburg-Today-St-Petersburg-Tomorrow-1923-Nolen-Plan-1.pdf; St....
Submission Guidelines
...global connections. Scholars working in southern studies, American Studies, African American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latinx Studies, Caribbean Studies, and the Global South are encouraged to submit your work. Southern Spaces...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...dependent on stolen slave labor. Post-Reconstruction politics did more than rewrite the cause of the Civil War—it also remade the space of the South: Confederate memorial statues were erected, often...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...Sacred Harp singings for its geographic range and provided a group of fifty Irish college students with their first exposure to the emphatic style and spiritual energy that characterizes large...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...popular vote, and it lost" (192). In other southern states, too, "voters recoiled at the power and the cost of the state and federal institutions necessary to implement actual road...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...are growing up in low-income families. These new-majority students lag far behind wealthier students in school achievement and graduation rates, while southern states provide the least educational support in the...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...of their surrounding communities. A Community at Risk Confined for the most part to the deteriorating neighborhoods east and west of downtown, relegated to the lowest paying jobs in common...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
..."Florida's oldest restaurant and the world's largest Spanish restaurant."10See http://www.columbiarestaurant.com/The-Columbia-Experience/History. It is one of the few aspects of early Ybor City that still exists much as it did a century...
Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron
...artist for whom the South's past and present supplied endless and unpredictable material. On studio and live recordings, the self-proclaimed bluesologist can be found resurrecting the spirit of Jean Toomer's...