Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...Maxey talks with Craig Womack, Dustin, Oklahoma, 2015. Screenshot from Hearing the Call courtesy of Southern Spaces. For sure, the dominating force of English surrounds us. People in Creek country...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...for immigrants from Mexico who have come to live, work, and die in the United States (in quite significant numbers even in military service, to which the American establishment readily...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...decline had been caused by a combination of factors, including "the city's growth and suburban flight" as well as the "razing" of a number of houses "to prepare for expressways...
The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health Official’s Reconnaissance Trip to the US South
...Problem in Postwar Japan The United States' preoccupation with Japan's population growth continued after World War II, when the war-torn country faced renewed problems with the return of soldiers from...
The Shenandoah Valley
...Native American tribes burned large sections of it annually and settled in villages along its many streams and rivers. In the eighteenth century the Valley was the backcountry frontier of...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...powder form against insect pests across the country, especially in the South, where health departments and agricultural interests hailed it as an authentically American "wonder drug" poised to bring the...
Country Music Scholar
...at Tulane University. His books include Country Music, U.S.A.; Southern Music/American Music; Southern Culture and the Roots of Country Music; and Don't Get Above Your Raisin': Country Music and the...
Scales Intimate and Sprawling: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Geography of Marriage in Virginia
...of bureaucracy did not nest cleanly. While federal initiative may have prompted action, in Virginia, as in a number of other southern states, the cohabitation registrations came about through state...
Wanted eLove: Queer Square Spaces and the Revolution in Digital Intimacy
...other Uranian writers. For an overview of Percy's life and work, see John Howard, "'Our Country'—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy," Southern Spaces, April 17, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/our-country-benjamin-e-wises-william-alexander-percy. Yet, the pages of homophile...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...to demand the return of her slaves, who to her mind are illegally confiscated property. Simms’s setting in the South Carolina countryside, visualized as ravaged by the British forces, is...