Six Yellow Stanzas
...me and kiss me, talk that talk. 3. I don't know how to talk that talk. I am visiting friends of a family friend. These Creole ways are something I...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Upper and Deep South.6Steven Deyle, Carry Me Back: The Domestic Slave Trade in American Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 145, 157-73, 291-96, Appendix B. Helam had one owner...
Letter: Blues
...bought. At home, there is a violet, 3-D moon And pachysandra vines for me to prune, And old men with checkered shirts, suspenders, Paper bags and Cutty bottles, menders Of...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...is barely decipherable, his stories are full of crude reference to whores and excrement, and his disdain for his betters is clearly his main objective. In the opening conversation of...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...and includes items belonging to African American slaves and Native Americans, people involuntarily brought to Virginia and those who were decimated and pushed out. “No native Indian in Virginia is...
"The Choctaw Miracle": A Review of Katherine Osburn's Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi
Review In this meticulously researched book, Katherine M. B. Osburn follows the history of the Mississippi Choctaws from the Antebellum era to the "Choctaw Miracle" of the 1970s, when this...
On Fair Use
...an archive to turn to if copyright holders decide to challenge our use of their work. How do other online scholarly publications justify fair use of copyrighted materials? Just for...
Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities
...Photograph by Maik. Courtesy of Maik, CC BY-ND. In her April 2015 Southern Spaces publication "Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility,"...
Boll Weevil Monument, Enterprise, Alabama, 2010
The historical marker accompanying the statue reads: Boll Weevil Monument December 11, 1919 In profound appreciation of the Boll Weevil and what it has done as the Herald of Prosperity...
Whiskey and Geography
...Wood, Jr., From Ulster to Carolina: The Migration of the Scotch-Irish to Southwestern North Carolina (Raleigh: North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1998), 33. Corn...