"The Emblem of North American Fraternity": Opossums and Jim Crow Politics
...continuation of Taft's efforts toward sectional reconciliation as he pledged to "weld into a compact unit the North and the South."3"Taft Eats 'Possum, Gives South Pledge," 1. The event highlighted...
Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future
...A New Majority Update: Low Income Students in the South and Nation, Southern Education Foundation, 2013, https://southerneducation.org/wp-content/uploads/documents/new-majority-update-bulletin.pdf; computations from Tables 102.40, 204.10, 204.20, 204.70, 204.75d, “Digest of Education Statistics, 2022,”...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...of coniferous and deciduous forests referred to as "southern" or "yellow" pine. The ecological characteristics of the southern pine forests contributed to lumbermen's opportunistic dreams. Alabama's southwestern Pine Hills' climate...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...mainstream imaginaries of southern queerness—fantasies of what it means to be queer and southern, southern and queer—in twenty-first-century US culture and beyond.7Brian Reed, "Chapter II: Has Anybody Called You?" March...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...canonical non-Native South, the post-southern non-Native South, and the most recent manifesto-driven incarnation, the New (but still pretty much non-Native) South. Instead, I argue that the South before the South...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...(168–169). Who knew southern gospel was punk? The Cultural Origins of White Southern Gospel Then Sings My Soul focuses on the culture of white southern gospel music while acknowledging the...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Dixie: Race, Gender, and Nostalgia in the Imagined South (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 1-2. Rather than elucidating any "real" South, McPherson explores the "imagined South." Similarly, geographer Doreen Massey argues...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...South Carolina, 1981. Postcard. Courtesy of South Caroliniana Library and University of South Carolina. Next, Marquez moves from individual Latino experiences to the ways white southerners imagined and used “Latinoness”...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...at USC that will explore changing race relations in the US South and Southwest About George Sanchez George Sanchez is Professor of History and American Studies and Ethnicity at the...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...from "critical and contingent methods and theories" and "more precisely articulating the disruptive knowledge of subalterns." Doing southern studies is unmasking and refusing the binary thinking—"North"/"South," nation/South, First World/Third World,...