Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...and redistricting plans would go into effect immediately without approval from the federal government. In a similar move, South Carolina's Attorney General Alan Wilson declared that the state's new voter ID...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...public health and specific geographies—both real and imagined—in and across the US and global South. The journal welcomes projects relating to any time period or genre. Interdisciplinary frameworks, critical approaches...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...Americans). The top of the mural depicts two students of African descent holding a lamp and a flower, symbols of growth and illumination. Though stylized African forms appear throughout House...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
...to be seen. Appalachian activist and poet Wendell Berry published a new poetry collection titled This Day: New and Collected Sabbath Poems, documenting and exploring Berry's habitual Sunday strolls on...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...that have previously appeared in publications in our journal. This special issue complements scholarship published in Southern Spaces analyzing Trethewey's life and work, including Jake Adam York's 2010 interview with...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
...Justice because "the integrity of the court's justices and the proceedings cannot be influenced by money or even have the appearance of being sold to the highest bidder." For more on...
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
...new technology and implemented sweeping infrastructure improvements, the Port of New Orleans, hobbled by a dock board populated by political appointees who possessed no useful knowledge of the shipping industry,...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...tribute to New Orleans. In doing so, they identify Ellington's attempts at representing place, history, and culture in the city, his multi-genre approach, and his identity as a New Orleans...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...Time (Project Rapp)" (1989), to T. Tucker and DJ Irv's "Where Dey At" (1991)––to the rise of the major New Orleans record labels and the mechanics of localized cultural and...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...the Sons of Temperance, the Washington Temperance Society, the Good Order League, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the Anti-Saloon League. Interesting characters make unexpected appearances. The author explains how...