Congregation
...Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry. In 2003, her second collection Bellocq's Ophelia won the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book...
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...
About
...and interested readers. Southern Spaces publishes work in a variety of humanities and social science disciplines that represents and analyzes many souths and southern regions, offers critical scrutiny of any...
White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta
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The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...“People believe wholeheartedly that God doesn’t want us to mix.”1Steve Suitts, Overturning Brown: The Segregationist Legacy of the Modern School Choice Movement (Montgomery: NewSouth Books, 2020), 71. Whatever their purported...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...is becoming more well-known and the media can't protect him." He offers an explanation: "[W]hy did I start calling him Imam Obama?" It was "the natural thing to do when...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...enclave of black life and culture. The "Death" referred to in the book's title is, thankfully, not that of go-go itself, but that of the isolated, culturally independent, economically deprived,...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
...New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She has published several books of poems, including: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
...spending the 2012–2013 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. This presentation is drawn from his book project, Sounding...
Fort Scott newspapers
Fort Scott Daily Monitor. October 7, 1883 "Acquit Him" "From the statements of those present at the killing of McDaniel on the fair ground yesterday, the negro man, May, did...