COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...development, that were the rarity rather than the rule. As historian Peter Burke predicts, much will be said about ignorance when we look back on the pandemic.6Ana R. Rego and Marialva...
Bodies and Souls
...healthcare. I learned about common barriers to receiving healthcare and the importance of intervention when looking at large-scale results. While my approach to social justice had once been ideological, now...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...of an earlier era, Thomas Jefferson. As he looked at his region’s system of manners, he admitted, "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ....
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...memorials, for the most part, people maintain their personal practices of memorial creation. Roadside memorials have faced a number of legal challenges, as state department of transportation officials and legislative...
Excerpt from Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968)
From Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968): I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape. Images of all...
Stones and Shadows
1. Visiting the Stone The air in the car is thick and still. My father makes a right turn through the cemetery gates, giving me a significant look. I don't...
The Boatloads
Dante had not thought death had undone so many. He had not been paying attention. Just look at the front page every morning, its solid column of names. It looks...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...of a Sunbelt City that “everywhere you look, cities big and small are trying to get in touch with their inner Austin" (2). Yet as Tretter forcefully argues, the sunny portrayals...
Submission Process
...accept submissions on a rolling basis. We look for pieces that engage with our mission of critically interrogating the real and imagined spaces of the US South and their global...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...in a fine white dress, surrounded by members of the Boston literati, including Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Edwin Booth, James M. Bugbee, and Elizabeth Harris Houghton. The Appalachian author looks quite...