Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...popular wartime movies, Kaiser: The Beast of Berlin and To Hell with the Kaiser? The Florida legislature banned the teaching of German in public schools, while Governor Catts threatened to...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...wherever it takes place. Screenshot of HyperCities Earth showing a 1926 Pharus map of Berlin. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. From Andrew Battista, "Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of Hypercities." The “Digital Spaces”...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...sent over 750,000 slaves from the Upper South to the Deep South between 1830 and 1860.5Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003),...
Image Credits
...logo, from the west side of the Berlin Wall, Germany, August 2, 2008. Photograph by Rory Finneren. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0. #DCRainbowCrosswalks, June 10, 2017....
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...I specifically reference the Pulse tragedy in my work with the number 49. A lot of my work features the multiplicity of that number. The blood slide pieces in What...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...health and healing where there were small numbers of Black patients.11Fett, Working Cures. Gonaver warns us not to read Galt's attitude as any kind of emancipatory rhetoric, but as representing...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...an all-white restaurant, or to momentarily avoid a racial indignity. Some white leaders openly acknowledged what a large number of various skin complexions meant in the real life of...
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
...venue to the "Race Course," and reduced the number of persons for sale: Joseph Bryan’s Advertisements for the “Sale of Slaves”, The Savannah Daily Morning News, February 27, 1859. Mortimer...
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...