Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...published work in the field of environmental studies include: Mikko Saikku, Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Shirley Stewart Burns, Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia Peter West, Trying...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
...against the "lazy, lying, lustful animal" that he more politely called "the Negro," this arch white supremacist lobbied to help the Choctaws secure federal assistance (48). Unlike Mississippi's black citizens,...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...Souths Southern Labor Studies Association, New Orleans March 7–9, 2013 The Southern Labor Studies Association is soliciting panels for its 2013 conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. The conference theme, the...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...slavery" (100). Perhaps annexation's most tumultuous legacy, however, was the war with Mexico. Conquest in the Southwest and brinksmanship in the Northwest affirmed the Polk administration's commitment to the foreign policy...
Rent
There were five houses over twenty years. We lived almo*]}*st a decade in one, a mild, shallow winter in another. We bartered work for rent in the last, the one...
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...facebook page, and public statements by prominent alums and donors. It is unclear whether these voices will ultimately save the press, as happened with the Louisiana State University Press in 2009....
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...their bus near Anniston, Alabama, on Mother's Day in May 1961. Momentum is growing to construct a suitable memorial at the site—one of the most iconic locations in the struggle...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...standpoint, what is most striking is not the monolithic character of the slave "community," but its plurality. Scholars such as Deborah Gray White, Brenda Stevenson, Michael Johnson, and Michael Gomez...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...interdisciplinary intellectual enterprises, perhaps particularly American studies writ large. We realize only too well that just a generation ago southern studies marched obstinately in the rearguard of American studies both...
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique The Marie-Séraphique Video Permissions Creative Commons license CC-BY-ND To inquire about use permissions for all or part of these videos, contact Southern Spaces at seditor@emory.edu....