Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...Book Library. Page 1 - Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4 The film Anne Braden: Southern Patriot shows how Anne Braden found her voice as a southern white...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Cover of Booker T. Washington's A New Negro for a New Century (Chicago: American Publishing House, 1900). Campney's discussion of black resistance challenges notions offered by some scholars that it...
Single Centers of Creation?
...a new line in the story. If we could trace all our origins all the way back, we would find that we salamanders, we hominids, we birds, we slime molds...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...me and kiss me, talk that talk. 3. I don't know how to talk that talk. I am visiting friends of a family friend. These Creole ways are something I...
Birth Right
...Statistical Profile. Chicago, IL. A 2009 report by the Health Resources and Services Administration found that "approximately 888,000 people, or 19 percent of Alabama's population, cannot access a primary care...
An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim
...Mississippi John Hurt." Poem text. Rodney Jones reads the poem "Sweep." Poem text. In this interview at the 2009 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Chicago, Illinois, Rodney...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...an in-depth interview with Trethewey, and eight critical essays. Southern Spaces is happy to have supported the Southern Quarterly by granting permission to include a number of images of Trethewey...
The Bulletin—October 2, 2012
...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. October 1 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the integration of the University of Mississippi. A number of media outlets reflected upon how...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as in New Mexico, California, and a few other states outside the South, an increase in the number of Latino children appears...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...