Landscapes and Ecologies of the US South: Essays in Eco-Cultural History
...the figures with rates in Cuba. He offers a sympathetic portrait of the Cuban countryside and the possibilities for greater agricultural collaboration once the United States lifts its embargo. African...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...Captain Simon Suggs, the 1845 creation of Johnson Jones Hooper: "It is good to be shifty in a new country." The genre of southwestern humor is the first of a...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...fiat that changed the initials the young Grant planned to adopt ("U.H.") to "U.S.," with all that the latter letters portend for Grant's and the country's future (according to Four...
Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground
...mob, but the soldiers did little to prevent the raid, refusing to fire their guns. Once inside, the mob freed all the white prisoners, roughed up and "interrogated" the suspects,...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...sheeting from raw cotton at the Katherine Plant of Springs Mills (now Springs Global) in Chester, South Carolina in 2006. About the Photographer Pressly Hall is a professional freelance photographer...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
...as a free-lance reporter. He was a contributing editor for Saturday Review of Education (1972-1973), Race Relations Reporter (1973–1974), and Southern Voices (1974–1975). From 1973–1975, he was a writer for...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...novel. For a powerfully written and argued history of the role of violence and force in the abolitionist movement, read Kellie Carter Jackson's Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the...
Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry
Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...
And the Prize Goes to...
...folklore, information sciences, public policy, music, food studies, and economics. The seminar voted Simone Delerme's 2014 Southern Spaces article, "'Puerto Ricans Live Free': Race, Language, and Orlando's Contested Soundscape," as...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...“The actors actually deconstruct the [minstrel show] device in front of the audience, and in the end, rebel against it,” director Susan Stroman explained in response to Freedom Party protests...