Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...some forced to sleep in their cars, while landlords capitalized on increasingly scarce housing. Ultimately, most residents returned to their former land as tenants and employees of the federal government...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...and cultural institutions in which Protestants and Catholics work for shared cultural and economic goals. Affirmative action programs require increased Catholic employment as police. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...They highlight its flow, capturing a present that passes even as the shutter closes. They evoke loss. But because a photograph exists, a former present—now past—can return again and again....
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
...of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), and Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family (Oxford: Oxford University...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
Call for Submissions Series title: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces Series editor: Eric Solomon, PhD Submission deadline: This is an ongoing series. Submission requirements: 350–500 word proposals OR full projects...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...ways. And both elide captivity altogether (though these texts continue to be generically categorized as captivity narratives) opting instead to depict local Indians as gangs of all-consuming homicidal psychopaths who...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...lost in the Gulf, the island split in half when Hurricane Camille hit, shows us casemates, cannons, the store that sells souvenirs, tokens of history long buried. The Daughters of...
The Border South
...Court in Brown v. Board of Education included four cases from the Border region out of the five total cases. The NAACP's strategy targeted the Border South and the cases...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...obtain the funding necessary to provide care. Following the global outbreak of COVID in 2020 many governments created temporary measures to extend aid to vulnerable populations. In the US, these...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
Donald Trump on immigration , presidential announcement speech, Trump Tower, New York, New York, June 16, 2015. Courtesy of Giphy. Donald Trump kicked off his large presidential campaign rally in...