The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...with a token number of Black students to deflect federal scrutiny, and that increasingly professed nonracial reasons for their practices, often citing religion. Many headmasters of the “segregation academies” by...
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...neighborhood was home to 1,570 people in 2010, among whom 34 percent were non-Hispanic white, 39 percent were black, and 26 percent were Hispanic. At that time, 66 percent of...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...the way "southern literature" would be both marketed and received in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This quietly ambitious study reminds us that we cannot understand the phenomenon of nineteenth-century...
The Mobility of Faith: Cross Sections of Haitian Religion in Miami
...of Vodou practice, it offers only scant engagement with the phenomenon in the United States. Instead, Rey and Stepick emphasize four stages of Vodou practice in the Miami diaspora: its...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...not only expanding the pool of practicing Appalachianists but also sending more culturally aware and politically alert graduates into all sectors of society: government, education, business, non-profits, and churches. Whether...
"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh
...diseases like polio. However, it faces emerging health challenges, including the growing burden of noncommunicable diseases, heightened vulnerability to disasters and environmental hazards, and the threat of health emergencies during...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...an in-depth interview with Trethewey, and eight critical essays. Southern Spaces is happy to have supported the Southern Quarterly by granting permission to include a number of images of Trethewey...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...