Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...up and sent back across a similar border and river separating North from South. The denial of freedom, respect and full citizenship rights to African people years ago was immoral...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...2006); State of South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs, "South Carolina Hispanic/Latino Report" (Columbia: South Carolina Commission on Minority Affairs, 2006), http://www.state.sc.us/cma/data/FINDINGS%20REPORT2006.pdf (accessed February 21, 2011); Heather A. Smith and...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...South, and in the rural South. There were few towns, and few non-agrarian jobs available, and most Black people were farm workers. After Emancipation, the newly freed people needed land...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...the US and Global South, edited by Dr. Mary E. Frederickson. Submit all inquiries and materials to Southern Spaces managing editor Mary Ann Robertson at seditor@emory.edu. See the Southern Spaces...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...of coniferous and deciduous forests referred to as "southern" or "yellow" pine. The ecological characteristics of the southern pine forests contributed to lumbermen's opportunistic dreams. Alabama's southwestern Pine Hills' climate...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...mainstream imaginaries of southern queerness—fantasies of what it means to be queer and southern, southern and queer—in twenty-first-century US culture and beyond.7Brian Reed, "Chapter II: Has Anybody Called You?" March...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...city's neighborhoods, with concentrations in Wheatville and Clarksville,30Clarksville, the first colony of free African Americans in Texas, remained unincorporated by the City of Austin and almost entirely African American well...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...canonical non-Native South, the post-southern non-Native South, and the most recent manifesto-driven incarnation, the New (but still pretty much non-Native) South. Instead, I argue that the South before the South...
Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...Norfolk, and Buxton, Iowa, congregated—sometimes along class lines, but always together," Earl Lewis argues. "In the southern context, congregation was important because it symbolized an act of free will, whereas segregation...
Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg
...African descent from the African continent and its diasporas. I have been asked to speak on the theme "Archiving Africana" with an eye towards helping you rediscover Africana archives as...