Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...short codes > Check for balanced shortcodes. Unbalanced start tag short code found before: “Robert Franklin Williams, Negroes with Guns (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1962): xiv. In July 1965,...
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 Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman
The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman A popular tourist attraction in New Orleans today is the "Moonwalk," a brick-paved promenade stretching along the Mississippi riverfront from the Covention...
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...
The Podcast and the Police: S‑Town and the Narrative Form of Southern Queerness
...like Bibb to the west. I'm at a Best Western just off the exit ramp, behind a Waffle House."8Brian Reed, "Chapter I: If You Keep Your Mouth Shut, You'll Be...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...& Company, 1976); Athearn, In Search of Canaan; and Charlotte Hinger, Nicodemus: Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016). Lynching "continued to provide...
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...
Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference
...Callaloo Conference, our seventh annual gathering, which focuses on "Making Art: Writing, Authorship, and Critique," a subject that seldom, if ever, receives significant headliner attention at academic conferences today. For...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...chapters. Pulitano argues that certain writers more effectively subvert western authority by fusing Native and western traditions, forcing readers to reconsider Eurocentric hegemony. In contradistinction to this group, she analyzes...