Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies
Video Part 1b: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 2: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for Southern Studies Part 3: Re-imagining the Red States: New Directions for...
Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans
...Jim Crow provinces, with the latter often refusing to budge. The Mississippi guide described the typical black inhabitant as "a genial mass of remarkable qualities…carefree and shrewd....As for the Negro...
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?
Aestheticizing a Political Debate: Can the Creek Confederacy Be Sung Back Together? Part 2: Womack analyzes Posey’s representation of the vexed relationships between Creeks and Freedmen in the Creek Confederacy...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
The Great South From 1873–74, towards the end of Reconstruction, journalist Edward King travelled the former Confederacy attempting to unpack the meaning of "the Great South" (1875) for largely northern...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...novel. For a powerfully written and argued history of the role of violence and force in the abolitionist movement, read Kellie Carter Jackson's Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
Introduction Since the 1980s, various individuals and publics have dedicated memorials to LGBTQ communities in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other European countries. Among them are George Segal's...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation, released on June 15, 2010, can be found free of charge at http://www.southerneducation.org. Begun in 1867, the Southern...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
Excerpt Any collection that aims, as this one does, to represent the upheaval and diversity of a field that is remaking itself must confront at the outset the difficulties posed...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...Rally, Freedom Plaza, Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, July 9, 2015. Photograph by Flickr user Elvert Barnes. Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 2.0. As Donald Trump continues to demonize all undocumented...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...non-fiction. Pratt has also received a Lillian Hellman-Dashiell Hammett Award from the Fund for Free Expression and a Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts....