Dancing Around the "Glaring Light of Television": Black Teen Dance Shows in the South
...the North. Historian Brett Gadsden describes Delaware as "a provincial hybrid, one in which ostensibly southern and northern modes of race relations operated."30Brett Gadsden, Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation,...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
...counter the negative view of the South that Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852) popularized with such amazing force. Even before her novel appeared serially, southern novels set on...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...racial order of the Jim Crow South. Reed considers himself a southerner with "a small asterisk."1Reed, Adolph L. Jr., The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives (New York: Verso Books, 2022),...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...are in extreme poverty were in the South.2 The Southern Education Foundation's South includes fifteen states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee,...
St. Augustine's "Slave Market": A Visual History
...Thing in the Face: Slavery, Race, and the Commemorative Landscape in Charleston, South Carolina, 1865–2010," Journal of Southern History LXXVIII, no. 3 (August 2012): 639–684. The market is a reminder that...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
Review As a scholar born in the US South who has spent much of my career teaching southern history, I have often longed for a moratorium on romanticized discussions of...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...v. Hardwick decision, remains obliquely in that bed. Detail from Felix Gonzalez-Torres' Untitled, Seoul, South Korea, 1991. Courtesy of Flickr user Paul Keller. Creative Commons license CC by 2.0. Your...
Editors
...well as co-editor of The South and the Caribbean (University Press of Mississippi, 2001). His most recent book is Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of Spirit in the South...
Public Health in the US and Global South
Introduction "Southern Epidemic: How HIV Became Our Problem," screenshot from Atlanta's WSB-TV coverage of the CDC's findings, May 6, 2016. Courtesy of Southern Spaces, October 6, 2016. Global patterns of development...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...Crespino, eds., The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). It is through this myth that non-southerners have projected national sins, particularly racial sins, upon the South....