An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the U.S. South and their global connections

Reviews

Reviews are critical analyses of recently published books, films, music, events, and digital projects relating to real and imagined places of the U.S. South, or making connections and comparisons between the U.S. South, southern regions, and other areas of the world.

Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South

Angela D. Dillard, University of Michigan
23 April 2013
review

Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery

Peter McCandless, College of Charleston
28 February 2013
review

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology

Patricia Yaeger, University of Michigan
13 February 2013
review

Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places

Sarah H. Hill, Independent Scholar
4 December 2012
review

A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans

Holly Hobbs, Tulane University
20 November 2012
review

Queering Southern Gospel: A Review of Douglas Harrison's Then Sings My Soul

Scott L. Matthews, Georgia State University
13 November 2012
review

Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live

Matt Miller, Emory University
4 October 2012
review

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

Tom Rankin, Duke University
11 September 2012
review

A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans

Katherine Mooney, Yale University
26 July 2012
review

Uncovering Confederate Literary Nationalism: A Review of Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes

Robert K. Nelson, University of Richmond
17 July 2012
review

Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom

Scott Nesbit, University of Richmond
19 June 2012
review

Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition

Gary R. Mormino, University of South Florida St. Petersburg
15 May 2012
review

Lynching and Local History: A Review of Troubled Ground

Amy Louise Wood, Illinois State University
8 May 2012
review

"Our Country"—A Review and Excerpt from Benjamin E. Wise, William Alexander Percy: The Curious Life of a Mississippi Planter and Sexual Freethinker

John Howard, King's College London
17 April 2012
review

Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway

Rob Amberg, Madison County, North Carolina
3 April 2012
review

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

Brent M. S. Campney, The University of Texas-Pan American
13 March 2012
review

Medicine as Memory: Radcliffe Bailey at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

Jake Adam York, University of Colorado, Denver
26 January 2012
review

Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo

Lawrence N. Powell, Tulane University
17 January 2012
review

Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou

Scott L. Matthews, Georgia State University
12 December 2011
review

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

Peter H. Wood, Duke University
10 October 2011
review

Review: The Makers of the Sacred Harp

Timothy Eriksen, Wesleyan University
23 June 2011
review

"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later

Ellen Spears, University of Alabama
16 June 2011
review

An Oyster by Any Other Name

Elizabeth Engelhardt, University of Texas, Austin
18 April 2011
review

"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place

Bryant Simon, Temple University
28 March 2011
review

Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography

Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia
23 February 2011
review

Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone

Michael Moon and Colin Talley, Emory University
6 December 2010
review

Retelling Virginia's Migration History

Debra H. Rodman, Randolph-Macon College
25 October 2010
review

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia
29 July 2010
review

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

Grace Elizabeth Hale, University of Virginia
6 March 2008
review