Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...of English and American Studies at Oxford College, Emory University. His work is featured in Southern Spaces, south, Pop Matters, and Mississippi Quarterly. Julio Capó Jr. is an associate professor...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act," Southern Spaces, August 29, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act. As a result, by voiding Section 5 and now greatly weakening Section 2, the Court...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...Nation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949), 205; George Brown Tindall, "Business Progressivism: Southern Politics in the Twenties," South Atlantic Quarterly 62 (1963): 92–106; Rob Christensen, The Paradox of Tar...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...first book contributes immensely to US southern, economic, gender, and political history. Examining the experiences of black female convicts in Georgia between emancipation and the 1920s, No Mercy Here enriches...
Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston
...From 1865 to the present, two starkly contrasting histories of slavery have competed in Charleston, South Carolina, the setting for Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of...
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...fueled a rigid racial order amid changing class alliances. For Jennison, the slide toward the sectional South of white rule, black oppression, and red removal was not inevitable but resulted from...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...civil rights. Locations of state parks in the South highlighting facilities made available to African Americans between 1937 and 1962. Map by William O’Brien. Originally published in William O’Brien’s Landscapes...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/highlighting-charlestons-african-american-history-through-lowcountry-digital-history-initiative. Bransford, Steve, Michael Page, and Anthony Martin. "St. Catherines Island Flyover." Southern Spaces, July 14, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/st-catherines-island-flyover. Hagood, Taylor. "The Digital Yoknapawtawpha Project." Southern Spaces, January 22, 2014. https://southernspaces.org/2014/digital-yoknapatawpha-project....
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...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...mix of canonical, mature artists and talented younger photographers. They are all “from” the South, where they have all lived and done important work. But for Wylie, their “southernness” lies...