Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...the 1990s. We are grateful for careful editorial work on this post by Allen Tullos and the Southern Spaces team. Appendices Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...statement of discontent.1"Sharecroppers Evicted, Camp Along Highways," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 10, 1939; "Sharecroppers in Mass Move; Appeal to Federal Officials," Sikeston Standard, January 13, 1939; "Army of Sharecroppers Trek...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...racism, the vulnerability of blacks, and the brutality of the racial order" (1). He deploys a more capacious approach, encompassing sensational violence (lynchings, race riots, mobbing, killing-by-police, and homicides), threatened...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
..."a harbinger of mass culture" that helped bring about new codes of conduct as well as cross-racial relationships.3Kasson, 112. Kasson's history offers a relatively rosey view of amusement parks as...
Trouble the Land: Crow and Molasses
...for them was the beginning of the end. (0:28) Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor (Narrator): Amid the racial tensions of the post-war South, Atlanta's white leaders promoted their hometown as, "a city too...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...between tradition and modernity, music and society. Sweet Air stands at the crossroads of several historiographical paths, including recent approaches in cultural studies and vernacular music history.1Comentale uses Josh Kun's...
Trouble the Land: Atlanta Student Movement
...Some across-the-table type meetings, negotiations, and what have you. Scan of "An Appeal for Human Rights," Atlanta, Georgia, March 9, 1960. This newspaper advertisement by The Committee on Appeal for...
New Shades o'Death Creek
Excerpt Set in West Virginia, this excerpt from Giardina's novel of time-space travel, Fallam's Secret (2003), evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountaintop removal in the southern Appalachians. On...
An Excerpt from Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History
...nothing so appropriately as to a tadpole walking upon stilts.20Helper, The Land of Gold, 71. What offended Helper's Anglo-Saxon sensibility was not just the freakish, exotic appearance of the Chinese...
Cajun South Louisiana
...Television Corporation, which received an invoice in which the letter a had been added to Acadian to become Acadiana. The television manager appreciated this striking new descriptor and popularized it,...