"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984). People turn spaces into places. Historians of slavery have written reams about the agency of slaves,...
Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
...Southern Studies About the Speaker Tara McPherson is Associate Professor of critical studies and gender studies at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television. She is the author of...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...and an African American volunteer drove back to Montgomery to collect more volunteers.6David Cunningham, There's Something Happening Here: The New Left, the Klan, and FBI Counter-Intelligence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005)....
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...of life as marketable features that could further their interests.6John R. Logan and Harvey L. Molotch, Urban Fortunes: The Political Economy of Place (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). Tretter...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
Review On June 19, 1911, the quiet evening descending on Thorndale, Texas, shattered suddenly when a group of men exiting a saloon attacked a youth they found whittling wood. Eyewitnesses...
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
Review Open Cameron B. Strang's Frontiers of Science and you will encounter a fascinating frontispiece that receives no mention in the remarkable study that follows. The image is perhaps too...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...Coke is an award-winning poet and author of Huron, Cherokee, French-Canadian and Portuguese ancestry. Her poetry ranges from North Carolina where she worked in tobacco fields, to California where she worked...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
Excerpt Any collection that aims, as this one does, to represent the upheaval and diversity of a field that is remaking itself must confront at the outset the difficulties posed...
Resegregated Spaces: The Schools-to-Prisons Pipeline
Video About the Speaker Born in 1933 to Irish immigrant parents, Constance Curry grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. She graduated from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, where she...