From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...was scheduled to close in February 2007 and transfer its weaving operations to Brazil. Although the highly mechanized factory required few workers, the Katherine Plant’s closing marked the end of...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy." Southern Spaces, August 17, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/no-place-be-displaced-katrina-response-and-deep-souths-political-economy. West, Bruce, Todd Bertolaet, and David Wharton. "Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives." Southern Spaces, February...
Krog Street Tunnel
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Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...neighborhood, New Orleans, LA, February 19, 2011. Photograph by Derek Bridges. Mobility is a principal point of departure for Sakakeeny's understanding of brass bands within contemporary New Orleans. For any...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...the United Note Singers sing shape-note music, Sweet Home Baptist Church, Hiram, Georgia, February, 2011. Image courtesy of the Center for Public History, University of West Georgia. I traveled to...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
Review In Border Contraband: A History of Smuggling across the Rio Grande, George T. Díaz addresses the US-Mexico borderland's tawdry reputation, recently refueled by unsubstantiated stories about cocaine packed into...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...and Ann Pancake. "Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake." Southern Spaces, May 30, 2017. https://southernspaces.org/2017/closer-ground-conversation-ann-pancake. Yaeger, Patricia. "Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology." Southern Spaces, February...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
Review By the middle decades of the nineteenth century, the cause of worldwide abolition was riding high. Nearly a half century had passed since revolutionary fervor put slavery on a...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
Review On June 19, 1911, the quiet evening descending on Thorndale, Texas, shattered suddenly when a group of men exiting a saloon attacked a youth they found whittling wood. Eyewitnesses...
Andalusia: Photographs of Flannery O'Connor's Farm
Photographing Andalusia After receiving permission from the Flannery O'Connor-Andalusia Foundation to visit and photograph, in April, 2007 I went to Milledgeville from my home in South Carolina. Andalusia is located...