Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
Sarita Alami, THATCamp Feminisms South participants edit wikipedia pages for TooFEW, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 15, 2013. Southern Spaces has had a long and sometimes sordid relationship with Wikipedia....
Editorial Style Guide
...a whole is to simply use "the South" or "southern" whenever possible. South: Southern Spaces prefers writing that treats "the South" as an imagined geography that has had important political...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...southern literary nationalism, arguing that southern literary critics—sometimes the same critic at different moments or even in the course of a single article—variously positioned the literature of the South as...
Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance
...throughout the Americas, having African antecedents, and transmitted by enslaved and free people across the generations.11Jamieson, Ross W., "Material Culture and Social Death: African-American Burial Practices," Historical Archaeology 29 (1995):...
The Black Belt
...Geologically, the region lies within the Gulf South's Coastal Plain in a crescent some twenty to twenty-five miles wide that stretches from eastern, south-central Alabama into northwestern Mississippi. The unusually...
Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...just southerners) took up Confederate symbols as signs of rebellion. As the southern rock of the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd filled the soundscape, Eggleston could not resist playing this...
Wherein the South Differs from the North: Naming Persons, Naming Places, and the Need for Visionary Geographies
...differ as names, for while "North is a name," "South is not a name," "The south is not a name" (19). I take this to mean, among other possibilities, that...
Mapping the "Big Minutes": Visualizing Sacred Harp's Geographic Coalescence and Expansion, 1995–2014
...University, 2016). Meanwhile, journalists and individuals across Sacred Harp's geography associated the style with "old-fogy" rural southern white culture in decline and regularly foretold the style's extinction in the southern...
Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...Filipino areas in Los Angeles. Screenshot courtesy of Southern Spaces. HyperCities also models how to extend collaborative digital humanities projects beyond online environments. Published in Harvard University Press's metaLABprojects series,...
Local Color
...nineteenth century South. And in no respect was the South more different than in its underlying political structures. Both before and after the war, the South had unusual accents and...