Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...and rehung at a higher placement to stave off would-be vandals and thieves. When the city installed a second tribute to Vesey—a life-like statue erected in a municipal garden in...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...the multiple ways that information was gathered, interpreted, and networked in the early South" (96). In most instances of cross-cultural communication, the who mattered just as much (if not more)...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...among black women that they had no claims to femininity that would legitimize assertions of rape" (104). Although prison records provide numerous instances of African American women giving birth to...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...white. African Americans and whites still congregate separately in the newly integrated Lake Meer, Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia, June 12, 1963. Photograph by Ken Patterson. Courtesy of Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...US social currents. For instance, Wuthnow writes that "[a]lthough it is true that much about Texas is distinctive to its own location and history, Texas also serves valuably as a...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...map of North Carolina highlighting Wake County, February 12, 2006. Map by David Benbennick. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image is in public domain. Student diversity assignment strategies have been a...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...of the elephant, and in some instances actively interested in its demise. In a 2008 review, for example, Leigh Anne Duck calls for a "Southern studies without 'The South'" as...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...duress" with their former masters (39). In such instances, this agency involved escaping the oversight of former slave owners, as was the case of Thomas C. Hindman, an ex-Confederate general...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...Gulf Coast.6Similarly, some authors depict the swampy coast as harboring a terrible evil. For instance, H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu," first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales...
Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs
...another instance of a form of southern environmental injustice whose total ramifications have rarely been adequately acknowledged or addressed. In Spears's work, Anniston's story, alongside many other stories of those...