Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...repeatedly has written that his judicial philosophy is governed by the historical, original intent of the Constitution. Brian McFadden, "The injustice of racial entitlements," The New York Times Sunday Review,...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...the sting and shiver of revulsion with the savor of the earth and sun, of this once, not returning, sung for this one ear, on this one tongue. Backwater I...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...the figures with rates in Cuba. He offers a sympathetic portrait of the Cuban countryside and the possibilities for greater agricultural collaboration once the United States lifts its embargo. African...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
Submission deadline: March 17, 2016. Submission requirements: 300–500 word proposal. Questions: Contact managing editor Meredith Doster at seditor@emory.edu. The interdisciplinary online journal Southern Spaces invites researchers, writers, teachers, artists, documentary...
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...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...Path across Mississippi," Jackson [Mississippi] Clarion-Ledger, January 4, 2000, 1A. The paths tornadoes carve leave lasting marks across the Mississippi Hill Country. Residents bandage these reminders of destruction by rebuilding...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...v. Holder held that section four of the VRA—which defined a formula to identify areas of the country (many of which were in southern states) that required changes to voting laws...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...peacefulness" of the past they had known before the war (55–56). Kieffer returned from war and found a "ruined country, poverty stricken people, and no currency!" Looking out on a...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...the MGs) in the studio and on the road. These influences have rubbed off on the Truckers. On Go-Go Boots, they remake themselves into an alt-country, Alabama blue-eyed soul band....