Editorial Style Guide
...a whole is to simply use "the South" or "southern" whenever possible. South: Southern Spaces prefers writing that treats "the South" as an imagined geography that has had important political...
Visions for Sustainable Agriculture in Cuba and the United States: Changing Minds and Models through Exchange
Neither Eden nor Wasteland Ninety miles south of Florida lies the island that PBS's Nature calls the "Accidental Eden."1"Cuba: Accidental Eden," Nature, PBS (September 26, 2010), http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/cuba-the-accidental-eden/introduction/5728/. According to the...
Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations
...of a new scholarly edition of Arna Bontemps's 1939 novel Drums at Dusk and of the collection of essays Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the US South....
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...University, 2016). Meanwhile, journalists and individuals across Sacred Harp's geography associated the style with "old-fogy" rural southern white culture in decline and regularly foretold the style's extinction in the southern...
Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics
...Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta," Southern Spaces, January 28, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/bioregional-approach-southern-history-yazoo-mississippi-delta/. As a response and challenge to these limitations, Smith constructs the food story of Mississippi by drawing on civil...
A Green Democratic Revolution
...challenges of the twenty-first century. To secure clean air and water, climate and community resilience, healthy food, access to nature, and a sustainable environment for all. To promote justice and...
"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions
...the Ozarks.27Timothy Jones, "Commentary on 'Cultural Conservation of Medicinal Plant Use in the Ozarks.'" Human Organization 59(1)(2001), 136-140. During the 1830s, the Indian Removal Act forced southeastern tribes onto the...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
Community Building in a New South City Atlanta offers a sharp perspective of the Black experience in the urban South during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The emergence of its...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...just southerners) took up Confederate symbols as signs of rebellion. As the southern rock of the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd filled the soundscape, Eggleston could not resist playing this...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...band of states that stretches westward from the former Confederacy through the southwest to southern California. From L.B.J. to George W. Bush, every president has come from one of these...