"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...grants to Anglo-American settlers, who primarily took up residence in lands northeast of San Antonio. These Anglo settlers, who identified as Texians, and Hispanic settlers, who identified as Tejanos, fought...
Additional Audio Clips from Terry Easton Interview
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...1,091 between 1916 and 1974. The most devastating tornado to hit northeast Mississippi struck Tupelo on April 5, 1936. Two hundred twenty-two people died in the disaster, over 300 were...
Writing Appalachia
...Legacy of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee (2006). In 1858, (West) Virginia artist and author David Hunter Strother confirmed this blend of backwoods and urbane, noting that in East Tennessee...
Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839–1869
...reconstruct Bishop and other cave guides as avatars of slave self-empowerment. While these historical figures found ways of confusing the behavioral codes of slavery in their everyday interactions with cave...
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....
Good-Bye to All That?
...posted on their websites and promoted through all forms of social media, including Facebook. They described the kinds of constructive measures that have worked across Transylvania County to develop environmentally...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...she serves (through the medium of the memorial) to welcome whites back to their Eternal Home. In turn, just as field slaves were located in outlying cabins, so other people...
Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters
...(20 Jul 1963; 6 Aug 1960). Nevertheless, not all of the company was welcome. O'Connor writes of an impending visit: Letter dated 27 October 1960. Permission granted by The Mary...