Hyphenating Waters: A Review of Calypso Magnolia and Island People
...around and within, creating a geography that is boundary crossing and somewhat nebulous by definition and limitation. In such a vast space, what is the rationale for the foci of...
Uncovering Networks of (Mis)Communication in Early America
...Florida, and parts of Louisiana"—is a "socio-cultural model" that allows her to explore the historical complexities of an increasingly multiethnic space and not "some projection backward in time of what...
Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake
...the states surrounding you that your place is more backwards, that you are hicks. And, of course, the media delivered that message all the time about "hillbillies." So I understood...
Ungesund: Yellow Fever, the Antebellum Gulf South, and German Immigration
...States. Writing that blacks and "acclimated" residents of the South need not fear "this scourge of Mankind," Grund voiced another reminder that yellow fever was a strangers' disease and that...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...a too-neat linearity at play—one that elides both institutional forces that lure writers and artisanal bread makers into poor and working-class neighborhoods and other neighborhood life-cycles that somehow remain in...
The Bulletin—March 5, 2013
...living in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On March 3, 2013, doctors announced that a baby born in rural Mississippi had been "functionally cured" of HIV infection. The...
The Bulletin—November 29, 2012
...degrees latitude; the border would then be drawn due west until it reached the Pacific Ocean. The original boundary was marked by hatchet marks on trees, strategically placed rocks, and...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...Director, Min. Cassandra Greene, Director Ms. Hattie Lawson, Chair, Athens Area Human Relations Council Reenactment Timeline 3:00 p.m. - Leave First African Baptist Church for visitation of the Malcom and Dorsey gravesites. 4:45...
Marginalization, Mobility, and Sunday Strolls on the Farm
Megabus Coach USA MCI 102EL3 #29030, August 8, 2006. Photograph by Steinsky. Courtesy of Steinsky. Last Spring, Edward A. Hatfield wrote for Southern Spaces on the challenges of transportation planning...
Katrina, One Year Later: Three Perspectives
...off by such force and forwardness, but almost unthinkingly I responded to her by saying that I had appreciated all that she and her family had gone through, that I...