Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...between postwar travel writing about the South and southern local color fiction, noting that both genres "generally presented the region as an object for analysis, a confounding book of riddles,...
DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II
...powder form against insect pests across the country, especially in the South, where health departments and agricultural interests hailed it as an authentically American "wonder drug" poised to bring the...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
Southern Spaces is now offering authors the option of distributing new work published in the journal under a Creative Commons license. Beginning in 2014, in addition to retaining copyright of...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...will become a "world-class" city with references to enhancing the dynamics of distribution, promoting a revitalized downtown, building sports arenas, expanding the zoo, redeveloping the riverfront, and promoting the city's...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...South. Although southern rural music expressed the hopes, aspirations, failures, and hardships of rural people, farming culture remained invisible to most listeners. The work culture that produced the music—farmers plowing,...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...US South—Texas specifically—and as a queer southerner from Texas myself, I wondered what insights her collection might offer about LGBTQ+ experience in our home state. I never expected to come...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...the critical, interdisciplinary, and multimedia engagement with LGBTQ+ subjects that this series seeks to expand: Bibler, Michael. "Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations." Southern Spaces, July 8, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/same-sex-intimacy-fiction-about-southern-plantations....
Gulf of Knowledge: The Hidden Scientific History of the Early American Southeast
...Power: Communication in the Early American South, Frontiers of Science affirms that we must look south to fully understand that a range of variegated landscapes and populations have shaped the...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...South Carolina. And, less than one century later, multiethnic towns would again extend across the South. In Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South, Robin Beck uses an...
Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South
...notes the role of US communists and allied labor radicals in promoting the argument, as the Southern Worker contended, that "the police, the courts, and the 'law enforcing' machinery are...