The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...this neighborhood almost a year after the storm were cryptic markings on each house, recording the progress of first responders down the streets. Large spray-painted Xs on every home, with...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...voting and same-day voter registration. Civil and voting rights groups in the state have already filed suit against the state's 2010 redistricting plan, characterizing it as "a cynical strategy to...
When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras
...not Crouch himself but his student Marvin Winans. Standing before a grief-stricken audience of family, friends, music legends, and curious onlookers, Winans belted out Crouch's latest hit, "Let the Church...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...through which the state exerted itself. Agrarian studies scholar James C. Scott, in The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (2009), analyzes the political...
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....
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...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...
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...