"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...April 2010, the Scottsboro Multicultural Foundation secured a permanent home for the museum, the former Joyce Chapel United Methodist Church, whose congregation had dwindled. Just a few blocks from the...
The Bulletin—November 1, 2012
...Cuba in "Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange," and Brian C. Campbell uncovers how local traditions of biodiversity rooted in...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...they are often given few opportunities to better understand its complicated past. Cuban refugees aboard the Captain Preston who came to the United States during the Mariel Boatlift, Miami, Florida,...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
Essay For over thirty years, historians in the United States have written about slavery in terms broached by John Blassingame's path-breaking book The Slave Community (1972). Blassingame, George Rawick, Lawrence...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
...this region that includes counties with some of the highest rates of poverty and highest percentages of Democratic voters in the United States. "I truly thank him for coming. It...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...gerrymandering; voter suppression; voting patterns) Pandemic voting (voting rights; ballot initiatives; mail-in voting; voter access; United States Postal Service) Political activism (social justice; movements and mobilization; countermovements; grassroots efforts; the...
How I Shed My Skin
...inferiority, castigating blacks as lazy, ugly, smelly, dirty, sloppy, unruly, faulty, sorry. Seemingly told in jest, they united whites around racist ideology. "When we laughed at the joke[s], we accepted...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...ideas and activism. Daniel Immerwahr's How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (2019) forever alters readers' perception of the national map, outlining the extent and...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
Introducción El dramaturgo Abel González Melo nació en 1980 en La Habana, Cuba, mismo año en que el Exodo del Mariel vio a aproximadamente 125,000 personas huir de su país, un evento que dramatiza...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
Readings Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "The Change." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Off Season." Poem text. Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Packin' Four Corner Nabs." Poem text....