Residues of Border Control
...in this country involves. Wet clothes are discarded as immigrants mix with the overwhelmingly Mexican-American population of border towns. The items in the photographs represent first actions taken by border...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...in my own article, which came out during the same time period: Barbara Ellen Smith, "Black Lung: The Social Production of Disease," International Journal of Health Services 11, no. 3...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...Robbie Ethridge, Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). Smithers makes a promising start when he grounds his study in two...
Returning Home, Saxon Mills
I walk red roads, unpaved, blowing away, kicking leeched-dry clay. August. Near a lake fenced with chain link, red brick walls of the cotton mill shine in mid-morning Southern sun....
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...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...Florida Sun Sentinel in 2019, sixty-eight percent of Floridians support LGBT anti-discrimination laws, which led some to hope 2020 would be “the year for Florida to protect gay and transgender...
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...