Inside Poor Monkey's
...are generally eager to talk. Crowds rarely exceed two dozen at any given time. Traditional blues bands as well as fraternities from nearby Delta State University sometimes book the lounge,...
The Place of Appalachia
...complexity and reach of organizing in Appalachia that, compared with the essays in Stephen L. Fisher's Fighting Back in Appalachia (published in 1993), so many chapters in this book document...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
Essay For over thirty years, historians in the United States have written about slavery in terms broached by John Blassingame's path-breaking book The Slave Community (1972). Blassingame, George Rawick, Lawrence...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...the social geography of Jim Crow Birmingham in the book's opening sections. Founded after the Civil War by investors intent on creating a southern industrial mecca, Birmingham was a city...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...can all have enough." Charles Reagan Wilson, editorial board: I have just finished Albert Camus's The Plague, which I had never read. It's a profound book. And his portrayal of...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...the Judiciary Committee, United States Senate, 97th Congress, on S. 1992, April 1982. They are merely "logical" products of Justice Alito's thinking after conferring with his law clerks and perhaps...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Prize for his book Salvation Blues: 100 Poems, 1985-2005. His eight other books include Elegy for the Southern Drawl a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize, and Transparent Gestures ,...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...first book contributes immensely to US southern, economic, gender, and political history. Examining the experiences of black female convicts in Georgia between emancipation and the 1920s, No Mercy Here enriches...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...the oral history interviews for the book? Themes of spirituality, sexual fluidity, nomenclature, and queerness (9:08). Part Four Johnson acknowledges several women in his oral history project who have helped...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...Georgia Press, 2018). Courtesy of Willena Scott-White. From that first meeting with Ed Scott in 2013, I knew I wanted to write a book about his life. Over the course...