"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
... Places are, in short, "open and porous," "mental territories" constructed through a multiplicity of relations with "other" places.3Massey, Space, Place, and Gender, 5; Andrew R. L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray,...
Good-Bye to All That?
...vote, losing to a widely disliked Republican opponent who had led the GOP's attack on public education in North Carolina. In her 2008 election, Hagan had lost to Elizabeth Dole...
Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley
...Baptist Church. She and her siblings sang spirituals as The Bussey Sisters, with Bryant and one of her older sisters accompanying on guitar. Outside of church, she played at parties...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...Send submissions and direct all inquiries to: Series editor Eric Solomon (seditor@emory.edu) Top, Opening title sequence from television documentary "The Rejected." Originally aired by KQED, San Francisco, California, September 11,...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...transgressors as a "contrabandista community" (2), united in their unwillingness to pay extra for common merchandise to fill the coffers of US and Mexican treasuries. Los charros contrabandistas, Juego de...
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...president, South Carolina declared that his election foretold that "the equal rights of the States will be lost. The slaveholding States will no longer have the power of self-government, or...
Renewing Multimedia Scholarly Publishing: A Streamlined and Mobile-Friendly Design for Southern Spaces
...recounting her use of an article on our site in her teaching. Viewing Andrew M. Busch's Southern Spaces article "Crossing Over" on a phone. Screen capture of the new Southern...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...Yes. It's so interconnected. One thing that Susan Cerulean goes into in her essay at the beginning of An Unflinching Look is that there has always been a lens—which is a...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...potential consequences of the sweeping revolutions in France and nearby Haiti. Meeting of White Men and Indians, General Oglethorpe meeting Creek Nation. Print originally published in John Lossing's An Outline...
Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"
...know of only one white-authored account. The June 4, 1893, Atlanta Constitution reports that a Mr. W.D. Boggus of Covington has a number of curiosities on display in his place...