During the interwar years, the discourse of regional planning profoundly reformulated the spatiality of race and place in the United States. In the South, Jim Crow brutality and agriculture crisis fueled unprecedented population outmigration. Sociologist and author Howard W. Odum founded the Institute for Research in Social Science at the ......
How popular music reveals deep histories of racial tensions in southern culture Southern History Remixed spotlights the key role of popular music in the shaping of the United States South from the late nineteenth century to the era of rock 'n' roll in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. While musical activities are often sidelined in historical ......
Policing and Reform in America's Jim Crow Countryside
In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside as ideas of race, property, and belonging reshaped state power. In Mississippi Law, Justin Randolph explores policing's hinterland to explain US racial authoritarianism between the Civil War ......
Policing and Reform in America's Jim Crow Countryside
In the segregated American South, policing was war. Ungovernable police discretion came to the backroads and cattle pastures of America's rural countryside as ideas of race, property, and belonging reshaped state power. In Mississippi Law, Justin Randolph explores policing's hinterland to explain US racial authoritarianism between the Civil War ......
Debunking the mythologized South of the food writing world Pick up a contemporary cookbook or food magazine from the American South and you may notice that much of the writing isn't really about the food at all. In the late twentieth century, Southern boosters began elevating particular foods and drinks into what they lovingly called ......
Debunking the mythologized South of the food writing world Pick up a contemporary cookbook or food magazine from the American South and you may notice that much of the writing isn't really about the food at all. In the late twentieth century, Southern boosters began elevating particular foods and drinks into what they lovingly called ......
Born to a formerly enslaved mother and a white planter father, P. B. S. Pinchback (1837-1921) became the first African American governor in the United States. His tenure as governor of Louisiana was brief-a mere thirty-five days-but he remains one of the most prominent African American officeholders during the Reconstruction Era. Yet despite being ......
Born to a formerly enslaved mother and a white planter father, P. B. S. Pinchback (1837-1921) became the first African American governor in the United States. His tenure as governor of Louisiana was brief-a mere thirty-five days-but he remains one of the most prominent African American officeholders during the Reconstruction Era. Yet despite being ......
Black Women and the Charleston Hospital Workers' Campaign
In the spring of 1969, hundreds of workers, all Black and mostly female, went on strike at Medical College Hospital and Charleston County Hospital to protest racial discrimination, low wages, and the marginalization of their dignity. The movement began with an incident of wrongful termination in 1967 involving five Black women at Medical College ......
