Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...beaten by Thump’s wife Mareb and Mareb’s sisters. Ree’s beating turns the plot of the story. Soon, the three women turn up on the front porch of Ree’s family’s imperiled...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...labor, and benefits of our birds. Call it a coop co-op. Our little poultry project tapped into a passion among people who want to model a certain kind of ethical...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...Ponchatoula Artisans Fame," Ponchatoula Times, July 31, 1986, http://ptl.stparchive.com/pageimage.php?paper=PTL&year=1986&month=7&day=31&page =1&mode=F&base=PTL07311986P01&title=The%20Ponchatoula%20Times. In smaller communities this sort of caution wasn't uncommon. Other communes—usually those in urban centers or college towns in the...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
... Top, Georgia, from the latest authorities, 1795. Map by William Barker and Mathew Carey. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, loc.gov/resource/g3860.ct001247. Bottom, Map of the...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...Parcel and Taylor point out that "the heightened partisanship and polarization that was taking place in national, state, and county politics" coincided with the controversy over Wake's school policies: "Events...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...history of a contemporaneous project to the Dixie Highway or my own Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway project. Tools like Neatline, DH Press, and others permit geospatial...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...past. Florida (62 percent), Texas (56 percent), Alabama (54 percent), Arkansas (53 percent), and Tennessee (53 percent) followed. In Georgia, South Carolina, and West Virginia, low-income students in each state...
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...rigorous, double-blind peer review process with at least two external reviewers. All reviews, blog posts, videos, and presentations undergo a rigorous internal review process. Publication Types Southern Spaces publishes eight different...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...and Letters of James Osgood Andrew. Nashville, Tenn. 1882. I explore alternate accounts of Andrew's relationship with slavery in Auslander 2001. Bishop Andrew's closest friend, College President Augustus Longstreet, played...
African American Community Building in Atlanta: A Guide to the Study of Race in America
...in public policy. But study promises clarity, forcing us to be explicit. Building effective frameworks for research may in time better structure private dialogue and public policy. This research guide...