The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...turn out to offer the future southern Blacks had hoped for" (5). He never backtracks on that assertion, but he does make El Paso and its white citizens "southern" for...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...the Jindal administration is helping Big Oil rip off a cash-strapped state," Southern Studies, May 7, 2015, http://www.southernstudies.org/2015/05/looting-louisiana-how-the-jindal-administration-is.html. Even some oil and gas firms thought themselves to be under-regulated: "A 1979...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
Review Understanding the creation of social spaces in an unfamiliar landscape is, according to Robert Paulett, a productive way to account for eighteenth-century developments in the American Southeast, particularly in...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Latin American Immigration to Atlanta,” Southern Spaces, May 19, 2006, https://southernspaces.org/2006/global-lives-local-struggles-latin-american-immigrants-atlanta; Odem and Lacy, Latino Immigration and the Transformation of the U.S. South. return to top Una Segunda Ola de...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...way into her stories. O'Connor's Southern Identity Although critics and biographers have never cast O'Connor as a rural recluse à la Emily Dickinson, she remained acutely aware of a tendency...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...Pleistocene (Silver Bluff) and Holocene shorelines on Ossabaw split near its southern portion, with the Pleistocene trending north–south and the Holocene trending northeast–southwest. The modern shoreline, which formed only in...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...the Schomburg Center and now at Howard University and the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center has been guided by these principles. Archival institutions are best known as repositories of records documenting the...
Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond
...to New Orleans as being "south of the South."22Nicholas R. Spitzer, "The Creole State: An Introduction to Louisiana Traditional Culture," Louisiana's Living Traditions, 1985. The relative worldliness of the city...
Race, Capitalism, and the Rise and Fall of Black Beach Communities
...negotiated complex and changing structures of racial discrimination, segregation, and exclusion in the Jim Crow and Sun Belt souths. The Land Was Ours explores the inner workings of black communities...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...cigarettes to Dominick Potania—"a member of one of New Orleans' best families"—as Potania was leaving the restaurant, giving them reason enough to enter.60"Restaurant Man Sold Marihuana, Police Charge," Times-Picayune (New...