Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story
...police uniforms, wheeling shopping carts through the flood. These are the lingering images I suspect most folks carry of southern Louisiana. Southern Louisianans speak of "before Katrina" and "after Katrina";...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...contribute to tenure and promotion, we are sharing details of Southern Spaces' readership reports process in this post. Southern Spaces visits, September 1, 2012–August 31, 2013. Screenshot from Google Analytics....
Editors
...well as co-editor of The South and the Caribbean (University Press of Mississippi, 2001). His most recent book is Flashes of a Southern Spirit: Meanings of Spirit in the South...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...Crespino, eds., The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009). It is through this myth that non-southerners have projected national sins, particularly racial sins, upon the South....
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...of approaches for joining geo-spatial analysis and humanistic inquiry. The media-rich lectures published here by Southern Spaces offer fresh perspectives on landscape photography, soundscapes, cities, spheres of cultural influence, and...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
..."what the same body means in different places."10Elizabeth Alexander, "Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander," Southern Spaces, December 10, 2009, https://southernspaces.org/2009/natasha-trethewey-interviews-elizabeth-alexander. On passing narratives in twentieth-century American literature, see especially Gayle Wald, Crossing the...
The Slaveholding Empire: Southerners, Federal Authority, and Slave Power Abroad
...slaveholders across the Americas and Horne's discussion of the complex relationship between the South and Brazil resonate with Karp’s formulations. This Vast Southern Empire tells us something we already knew—that southern...
Mapping Souths
...this discovery." See "The Position and Course of the South," DeBow's Review of the Southern and Western States 2.2 (February 1851): 231. In reality, if North and South formed two...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Georgia, 1838," Southern Spaces, https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838; Lumpkin, Removal, Vol. 2, 85; "An Act to Incorporate the Western Bank of Georgia," Prince, comp., Georgia Digest, 123; Senate Report 277, 23rd Cong., 2nd...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...of southwest Virginia; Rufus W. Holsinger of Charlottesville, Virginia; and many others. Black community photographers in the South, including P. H. Polk of Tuskegee, Alabama, Richard Samuel Roberts of Columbia,...