Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...than living Black people. In several states polling officials were all white, and ballots were numbered in such a way as to permit white officials to know how Black voters...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...senses of place are often also sites of contestation."7Rose et al., Introduction to Feminist Geographies, 9. This focus on space as a site of contestation serves as a dominant focus...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...More broadly, the film engages with the intertwined histories of Scottish Congregational line song, African American spirituals, and Muscogee (Creek) songs. Black spirituals and Muscogee hymns draw upon congregational line...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...evolving humanism, and abiding spirituality. Wise offers penetrating analysis of both the poetry's formal conservatism and its thematic innovation. Diary entries and letters are likewise handled with grace and rigor,...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
...childhood are recounted like scenes from Twain's work, and very much in the spirit of Old Southwestern humor tale. For instance, Guthrie relates one occasion on which he is taunted...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...part of the reason why. Nevertheless, McLemore's unique story still offers a rich opportunity to examine the complex dynamics of sexuality, gender, race, and class at the fringes of the...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...offers a method for examining nature and culture inside the Jackson Tract. Lumbermen, foremen, workers, and reformers generated a series of conflicts in this time of change in peonage labor...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...Collapsable side navigation menu with recent photo essays highlighted. Screen capture of the new Southern Spaces site courtesy of Southern Spaces. Our new site's design embraces a streamlined, minimal aesthetic uncommon in digital...
The Liminal Site
...the start, and quite unavoidably (given the glory of the site), I imagined my garden as site-specific art, a celebration of both place and space. What I wanted—my wife, far...
Residues of Border Control
...into the United States from the Rio Grande, 2008. This essay offers an interpretation of the Border Project’s intervention on the immigration public debate. By photographing the border area and...