Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...a diverse Latino population. While Márquez draws readers’ attention to the role that gender plays in shaping Latino experiences, it is not central to her book. For that, we can...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
Call for Submissions Southern Spaces invites scholars, critics, writers, health care providers, public health practitioners, activists, media producers, community organizers, and patients to submit 1,000-word blog posts, as well as...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...[conscious of being] Indians. Let them know that we are not Brahmans, Kshatriyas, Vaishyas, Shudras, we are nothing but Indians and will remain [nothing but] Indians . . . The...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...his deep rich voice, one of the wild songs of his Indian fathers […] The words spoke of the Indian when he had fallen and wasted before the white man,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...the Koch Brothers. Through the 1990s and the last decade, the wealthy retail magnate relentlessly promoted a right-wing agenda even as he used his considerable clout to defeat moderate Republican...
Religion and the US South
...evangelists, and congregational-based authority all promoted acceptance of Protestantism among the Cherokees and other Southeastern Indians. When the federal government forced removal of the Five Civilized Tribes to the Indian...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...lines were constructed are sketchy. Gamble (1901) is an excellent, but tedious source. See also, Ron Wright, "History of the Central of Georgia Railway," Central of Georgia Railway Historical Society,...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...chapter on the state "North Carolina: The Progressive Myth," (New York: Basic Books, 1976), 218–247. Naked Partisanship All that has changed. With a Republican governor and Republican controlled legislature, legislation...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...Indiana in 1930, James H. Madison marshals considerable evidence to suggest that racism and racist violence have been central themes in Indiana's history. Yet, in his analysis, he remains committed...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...African descent from the African continent and its diasporas. I have been asked to speak on the theme "Archiving Africana" with an eye towards helping you rediscover Africana archives as...