Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
Residues of Border Control
...the United States." The quantification of the “success” of enforcement in number of immigrants deported and the imposition of detention quotas on immigration police also dehumanizes immigrants.4Spencer S. Hsu and...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...answers, however, and Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South fails to deliver. Comparing inter- and intra- state migrants with those hired out to urban employers does not yield...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...Weaknesses in public health infrastructure and operations laid bare. Guidance delayed, shifted, and politicized. Mandates and masks applied, albeit unevenly. Healthcare stretched to the breaking point. Inequalities exposed. Supply chains disrupted. The economy slackened. Government spending...
Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
...the overall project, and graduate student assistants from the College of Charleston–Citadel Joint Graduate MA Program in History help acquire exhibition materials and lay out the projects in Omeka. In...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...or Delta blacks, for example—isolated from popular musical trends. At the same time, the sale of sheet music and especially recordings changed how people thought about songs by standardizing arrangements...
"No Deadline Short of the Grave": The Photographs of Paul Kwilecki
...Photographs from the Mississippi Delta (University Press of Mississippi, 1993), Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life (University Press of Mississippi, 1995), and Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible...
Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina
...Spaces, January 17, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/unhappy-trails-big-easy-public-spaces-and-square-called-congo. Trethewey, Natasha. "Geography." Southern Spaces, January 11, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/geography. Saikku, Mikko. "Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta." Southern Spaces, January 28, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/bioregional-approach-southern-history-yazoo-mississippi-delta....
Gone With the Wind
...clock creeping past some midnight or noon, over empty streets and the river disappearing at the model's edge the way the Princess would years later, engulfed in flame, Broad Street...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...nakedness stirs the film's controversy. Author bell hooks protests oppressive stereotypes that ensure Hushpuppy's victim status and her father's abusiveness and cruelty: his life of drunken delirium. Arlene Keizer, a...