Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...for example, as the Northeast's population grew by 13 percent and the Midwest's by 18 percent, the South's nearly doubled (increasing 82 percent) and the West's more than doubled (increasing...
Latinos, the American South, and the Future of US Race Relations
...often Latino migration. The Southwest increasingly is more compatible to the US South than the rest of the West, with racial diversity, Sunbelt economics, and widespread migration, now couched largely...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...Fe, Canadian National (which purchased Illinois Central), CSX, Union Pacific, and Norfolk Southern. All major truck lines operate in Memphis. Located at the intersection of I-40 (east-west) and I-55 (north-south),...
Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul
...(168–169). Who knew southern gospel was punk? The Cultural Origins of White Southern Gospel Then Sings My Soul focuses on the culture of white southern gospel music while acknowledging the...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...by the wiregrass and longleaf pine ecosystem. Here I use it as John Crowley does in Primitive Baptists of the Wiregrass South to refer to south Georgia and north Florida...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Georgia, 1838," Southern Spaces, https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838; Lumpkin, Removal, Vol. 2, 85; "An Act to Incorporate the Western Bank of Georgia," Prince, comp., Georgia Digest, 123; Senate Report 277, 23rd Cong., 2nd...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...at the time of the Stonewall Riots. Number of queer businesses listed in Houston, 1941–2015. Dataset by Brian Riedel, 2015. Line graph by William Robert Billups, 2020. Courtesy of Southern...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...South Carolina, 1981. Postcard. Courtesy of South Caroliniana Library and University of South Carolina. Next, Marquez moves from individual Latino experiences to the ways white southerners imagined and used “Latinoness”...
Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...recent scholarship, including Candace Waid's excerpt in Southern Spaces which challenges the idea of the white exceptionalist Southern Renaissance, Calypso Magnolia seeks to rethink the South and southern literary history...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...southern historical memory. Immediately after the Civil War, southern whites assuaged their defeat by claiming and dominating not only public spaces with monuments to the Confederacy, but utilized history departments...