Southern States Archives

Southern States

Down South

In June 1997, I boarded an all-night bus from the Port Authority to Asheville, North Carolina, with my friend Cynthia. We had no plan but to live there for the…

Almost Home

by Tema Stauffer, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers,

Separate and Unequal

by Adolph Reed Jr.,

From The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives, which will be published this month by Verso. The everyday life of the segregation era is not much discussed outside academia. More…

Southern Harm

by William Faulkner,

We are faced with two apparently irreconcilable facts in the South: the one being the decree of our national government that there be absolute equality in education among all citizens,…

Tyranny of the Minority

by Rebecca Solnit,

Think of our democracy as a house we built in 1776, big enough only for Christian, property-owning white men. Over the next two centuries, various groups struggled to make it…

The Monument Wars

by Rebecca Solnit,

For years, whenever I was in New Orleans, I used to run past an equestrian statue just outside the voluptuously green City Park. Though it is situated at a major…

Weary Oracle

by Dawn Lundy Martin,

By Dawn Lundy Martin. Martin is the author of four books of poetry, including Good Stock, which will be published by Coffee House Press in 2016. She teaches at the…