This series is devoted to opening new lines of analysis of the American South and to becoming a site for redefining southern studies, encouraging new interpretations of the region’s past and present. The series publishes works on the twentieth century that address the cultural dimensions of subjects such as literature, language, music, art, folklife, documentary studies, race relations, ethnicity, gender, social class, religion, and the environment.
Series Editor
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi
Redefining the Immigrant South
Indian and Pakistani Immigration to Houston during the Cold War
New Directions in Southern Studies
Published: May 2020
Hurtin' Words
Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South
By Ted Ownby
New Directions in Southern Studies
Published: December 2018
Beyond the Crossroads
The Devil and the Blues Tradition
By Adam Gussow
New Directions in Southern Studies
Published: October 2017
Hard, Hard Religion
Interracial Faith in the Poor South
By John Hayes
New Directions in Southern Studies
Published: October 2017
Lynching and Spectacle
Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940
New Directions in Southern Studies
Published: February 2011
Memphis and the Paradox of Place
Globalization in the American South
New Directions in Southern Studies
Published: September 2009
Calypso Magnolia
The Crosscurrents of Caribbean and Southern Literature
New Directions in Southern Studies
Published: March 2016
Baptized in PCBs
Race, Pollution, and Justice in an All-American Town
New Directions in Southern Studies
Published: February 2016
The Indicted South
Public Criticism, Southern Inferiority, and the Politics of Whiteness
New Directions in Southern Studies
Published: April 2014
This Ain't Chicago
Race, Class, and Regional Identity in the Post-Soul South
New Directions in Southern Studies
Published: April 2014