DEI Collab: Incorporating DEI into Ideas about the South

All too often, when people hear of troublesome issues in the American South, some amount of conscious or unconscious justification occurs. We look for reasons as to why something happened, or we brush off events as products of certain ways of life. In many ways, it is easier for people to cope with the idea of harmful practices if we can somehow rationalize them to ourselves; however, in reality, this process enables very real patterns of harm.