Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...in a rule's impact on members of different racial or ethnic groups"—not if a disparity exists, but how large the disparity is. In this way, the opinion suggests that the...
Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor
...Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Putting Up Beans." Poem text. An Interview with Allison Hedge Coke Part 2: Coke discusses “Packin’ Four Corner Nabs,” a poem about working in a...
Geography
Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text. About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
...in Illinois's horrific Cherry Mine Disaster in 1909. Organized labor, Dixon emphasized, was a family; working people needed security, safety, and decent pay to keep their children properly fed and...
Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts
...they lived with a coterie of other young people. They threw raucous queer parties and housed folks who didn't have anywhere else to go. A few blocks down the street...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
...cruisy, electric core was the Sweet Gum Head nightclub, where an intoxicating blend of drag, drugs, disco, and revolution had a pivotal role in uniting Atlanta's gay civil-rights movement—and in...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...health infrastructure? How did the politicization of Covid impede mobilization for the crisis, affect vaccination strategies and distribution efforts, and/or shape conflicting narratives of the pandemic in the US and...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...as Oxford College of Emory University—and directly past Bethlehem Baptist Church, the county's oldest African American house of worship. For two centuries the waterway has been a significant site of...
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Modeling the Marie-Séraphique The Marie-Séraphique Video Permissions Creative Commons license CC-BY-ND To inquire about use permissions for all or part of these videos, contact Southern Spaces at seditor@emory.edu....
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...disparities and for dismantling structures of inequality and exploitation. However, most of his remembered experiences with Jim Crow in this book do not directly support his enduring thesis. His argument...