Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins
Review The image on the front cover of New Deal Ruins reverberates prophetically. In March 1972, after only two decades of occupancy, the first of Pruitt-Igoe's thirty-three public housing towers...
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
...groups that had longer waits than their counterparts (whites, Republicans, non-urban dwellers). As reported in The New York Times, long waiting times depressed turnout in states like Florida, where residents waited an average...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
Review New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition, a compelling collection of photography and analysis on the ever-changing positions, roles, and meanings of Afro-diasporic cultural expressions in New Orleans,...
Zircon
...The Road From Gap Creek, was published in 2013. A new novel, Chasing the North Star, is forthcoming in April 2016. In addition, Morgan is author of three nonfiction books, Good Measure: Essays,...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...responsibility to LGBTQ+ subjects Queer theory and feminist theory (pasts, presents, futures) Reconsidering the queer theory canon (Foucault, Butler, Sedgwick, and other foundational theorists) Social Justice and Public Policy Violence,...
Local Color
...in a detached, and also non-vernacular voice that controls the portrayals of quainter but also less accomplished types in the inside story. The double structures are designed to highlight the...
The Place of Appalachia
...Appalachian Coalfields (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010); Shannon Elizabeth Bell and Richard York, "Community Economic Identity: The Coal Industry and Ideology Construction in West Virginia," Rural Sociology 75, no....
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
Blog Post The activism of Appalachian women who took up the fight for justice in the 1960s and 1970s pulsed outward from a core ethic of care. Caregiving animated their...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...interest to the critical study of space, place, and southernness. Southern Spaces blog posts are non-peer-reviewed publications that are often topical and timely pieces of commentary, and/or descriptions of websites, exhibitions,...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
O'er this wide extended country, Hear the solemn echoes roll, For a long and weary century, Those cries have gone from pole to pole; See the white man sway his...