Deep Ellum Blues
...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...time recognized this; civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, for instance, called lynching not a southern, but a national pastime).2Ida B. Wells, "Lynch Law in America," January 1900, accessed October...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...and race position — made A Southerner Discovers the South a documentary characteristic of its era, which saw many books in the "I've Seen America" mold.58On the "I've Seen America"...
Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach
...not The Loving Story; it is Loving. Welcome to Virginia: Virginia is for Lovers. Road sign near rest stop, Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 2016. Photograph by Eric Solomon. Courtesy of Eric...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...as forty anti-Semitic groups operating in the South at the time of the black freedom struggle. Some of these organizations promoted their cause exclusively through propaganda. Others took more direct...
Atlanta's Charis Books and More: Histories of a Feminist Space
...in America 1967–1975 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989); Lillian Faderman, Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century America (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991); and Becki Ross, The House That Jill...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...codes of conduct—likely resulting in civil litigation. In Mississippi, second-class citizenship remains under the aegis of special "religious liberty" measures for a bigoted few. HB 1523 is an attack on...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...white working class—coded as male industrial workers. For months before and after the 2016 election, journalists reported on various Trump Countries, as they were dubbed—Appalachian communities supposedly serving as ground...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...longer articles and media productions, that address the continuing public health and political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Queries and abstracts are also welcome. Southern Spaces is an open access,...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
Submit all inquiries and materials to Southern Spaces managing editor Madison Elkins at seditor@emory.edu. Submissions are especially welcome before October 15th, 2017, but will be considered on a rolling basis....