The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation
...were in the Southern states—and eleven of those were in Texas and Virginia. Most of these 396 districts were located in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio,...
The US South and the 2008 Election
...it for the first time since the 1870s. In 1930, New York was the most populous state, and California was only the sixth largest. By 1990, California had almost twice...
When the Border Crossed Me
...already known that Mexican people, men mostly, had started coming to central North Carolina. I knew many of them processed hogs or poultry, and that others worked on dairy or...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...in Georgia, which is available to watch for free. https://vimeo.com/470999167 Trailer for Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, July 23, 2019. Trailer by Brave New Films. Courtesy of Brave New Films....
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...
Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project: Remembering Ancestors
...twenty years local groups in several US cities have conducted African ancestral remembrance ceremonies marking Middle Passage sites.3These cities include New York, New York, New Orleans, Louisiana, Hampton, Virginia, Oakland,...
Shaping a Southern Soundscape
...conventions mixed with popular memory, amateur and "professional" history, the study of folklore, and decades of activism by southern "heritage" societies. We know that this thing called the South—a new...
The Place of Appalachia
...Appalachian Case (Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978); Dwight B. Billings, "Introduction: Writing Appalachia: Old Ways, New Ways, and WVU Ways," in Culture, Class and Politics in Modern Appalachia: Essays...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Ki" (The Problems of the Dalits) in a major Hindi daily published from New Delhi.2Samasyaen Daliton ki (The Problems of the Dalits), Rashtriya Sahara (New Delhi, India), 2000–2002. The public exchange that...