Local Color
...are "colored" by regionally defined characters, settings, folkways, and dialects. The paradox, and thus the richness, of this often discounted form lies in the tension between local and national that...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...the international struggle between free and bound systems of labor To combat the abolitionist threat, US slavers invested their energy and resources in an unlikely place: the navy. In what...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...the Protestant Apprentice Boys of Derry defended the city against the monarch's claim to divine right. More recently, the Free Derry civil rights movement represented a modern freedom struggle. On...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...the McClellanville town council, and Selden B. Hill, the white director of the Village Museum, proposed a parade to foster interaction between racial communities. We first encountered the Low Country...
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...Austin's community-oriented scene. Mellard situates this music within the political fluidity of the 1970s, a contentious decade between the upheavals of the 1960s and the conservative reactions they provoked. Progressive...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...across multiple disciplines. Presenting well-crafted articles, videos, reviews, interviews, and digital projects, these collections of free materials offer valuable resources for teaching, learning, and research. OER Commons logo, December 12,...
"Tell It": The Civil Rights Struggle in Tuscaloosa
...attacked TCAC-led activists on Tuesday, June 9, 1964. Giggie narrates how, day-by-day, tensions mounted between TCAC and the Tuscaloosa Police Department as protests against segregation and discriminatory practices expanded between...
Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease
...male. However, since at the least the 1970s, women have worked in the mines, including underground, albeit in small numbers. I use the language of "wives and widows" because most...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...increased use of formerly segregated sites led whites to abandon public spaces in favor of private facilities. States and cities steadily withdrew support for public parks and recreation.2Kevin M. Kruse,...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...invites or requires troubling traditional geopolitical borders by thinking across, within, and between them. Urgent America. Flag photograph, January 24, 2009, courtesy of Flickr user Beverly and Pack. Creative Commons...