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...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...address, Wallace had promised "segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever," and he assured voters that he would make every possible attempt to block federally...
Low Country Travelers: An African American Car Club of Charleston County, South Carolina
...construction of bridges across the Santee River to the north and the Cooper River to Charleston in the 1920s. Today, the town’s largely white population numbers around 450. Conversely, the...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II
...Rare Book Library, March 29, 2016. Photograph by Kelly Gannon. Courtesy of Kelly Gannon. Today, as a doctoral student in Emory University's Institute for the Liberal Arts, I research contemporary...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896, new ed. (New York: Macmillan, 1920), 340. See also Population of the United States in 1860, Compiled...
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...the making of the United States's second largest state. From the role of slavery to the rise of conservative politicians such as George W. Bush, Rick Perry, and Ted Cruz,...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...justice.3Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012), 320; Robert S. Emmett, Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...interesting case of marijuana prohibition, Isaac Campos makes the convincing argument that Mexican elites actually beat the United States to the punch by regulating it first, though typically U.S. politicians,...
Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia
In Search of Justice Mother Jones once said, "There is no peace in West Virginia, because there is no justice [in West Virginia]." This is as true today as when...
Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...wonder, has our imagination of what the United States looked like and felt like in the nineteen-thirties been determined not by novel or play or a poem or a painting...