Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
Southern Spaces is proud to launch a fresh design for our journal today, stage one in a two-stage rollout of our newly redeveloped publishing platform. The new design emphasizes visual...
The Crowd He Becomes
...from the furnace sheds, birds exploding, blown from molten light. * The mayor says all of us are victims, innocent victims. The lawyer kills his radio. Later folks are asking...
Shadows along the Waccamaw
Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...used against gay men. Lawson's teacher would observe this bullying, eventually reporting it to his parents. Late one night, Lawson remembers his father pulling him aside, asking him about what...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...took a similar position. Such declarations were, as already stated, somewhat disingenuous. The defiance of federal law by politicians including Talmadge and Preston created the context for lawless extremism in...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...the tunebook as he was a member of a “wealthy family on a large plantation” while White was “still establishing himself as a farmer and landowner” (6). Steel examines multiple...
Southern Football, African American Athletes, and the Relative Decline of the Big Ten
...its schools recruited talented African American athletes earlier than a number of other power conferences, most notably, of course, those in the South. Before the early 1970s, a minuscule number...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...on reading the landscape, see Richard Muir, Approaches to Landscape (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1999) and The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes. See William G. Thomas III, "The Countryside Transformed."...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...Avalon Project of Yale Law School, accessed August 22, 2013, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp. South Carolina proclaimed its secession and less than four months later fired on Fort Sumter. The Civil War, the...