Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...Márquez, Making the Latino South: A History of Racial Formation (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), 17. Between the 1940s through early 2000s, Márquez places questions about Latino racialization at...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, leading to the shooting deaths of four protest leaders. The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment Mindful of the historical context, civil rights organizers associated with the...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...people and places that foregrounds photography’s jumbling of time. In very different ways, they hold the place or person—the subject—steady so time can float free. William Christenberry, Greensboro, Hale County,...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places
...(now Charleston, South Carolina) up the Savannah River through Augusta, past several Creek Indian towns, and ending in the Chickasaw towns of present-day north Mississippi and west Tennessee. Temporally, the...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...Decatur, Georgia. She has curated and managed various exhibitions and collections. Moye earned a BA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and an MS from North Carolina State...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...a year earlier. Their target was Temple Beth-El in Charlotte, North Carolina. On November 11, 1957, the caretaker discovered six sticks of dynamite concealed at the rear of the synagogue...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...had a potent impact on national politics. Many white southerners felt slighted, but they misread northern minds. Votes by northern Democrats in favor of the Proviso "had less to do...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...are North Carolina-based, one from the Longleaf Film Festival which is in Raleigh, and another from the Lumbee Film Festival. We had an outdoor screening in Hoke County, North Carolina....