The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...Kansas and the South while analyzing how Kansans created a "Free State Legend" and made themselves the not-South. Campney insists that too many scholars reduce racist violence to lynching3Campney uses...
"Looking Back and Moving Forward": The Records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
...Grocery Stores for selling products grown or manufactured in South Africa. Lowery and SCLC equated the practice of apartheid in South Africa to the practice of racism in the southern...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...of involvement in social reform movements, see Paul Harvey, Freedom's Coming: Religious Culture and the Shaping of the South from the Civil War through the Civil Rights Era (Chapel Hill:...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...slaveholders across the Americas and Horne's discussion of the complex relationship between the South and Brazil resonate with Karp’s formulations. This Vast Southern Empire tells us something we already knew—that southern...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...undocumented immigrants any means citizenship are southerners, primarily white southerners.1Robert P. Jones, Daniel Cox, Juhem Navarro-Rivera, E.J. Dionne, Jr., and William A. Galston, What Americans Want from Immigration Reform in 2014: Findings from...
Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland
...compulsion to expand American territory. He made this portion of the southeast into "Jacksonland," beginning his lifelong project of turning Indian homelands into US possessions. John Ross to Andrew Jackson,...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...African Americans, such as southwest Atlanta.10For a rich discussion of the development and growth of these neighborhoods on the western, southwestern, and southern edges of the city of Atlanta from...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
Roadside Memorials in the US South In 2003, I began an odyssey through several states photographing makeshift memorials to departed loved ones found alongside the highways of the Southeast. In...
How I Shed My Skin
...making the racist points, over and over, with crude color-coded metaphors. Location of Jones County in North Carolina (top) and location of Pollocksville in Jones County, North Carolina (bottom). Maps by Southern Spaces, 2015....
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...career as a free-lance reporter. He was a contributing editor for Saturday Review of Education (1972–1973), Race Relations Reporter (1973–1974), and Southern Voices (1974–1975). From 1973–1975, he was a writer for Atlanta's Southern Regional Council....