Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...in the US South and Hate and Extremism nationwide, visit the Southern Poverty Law Center. In addition, visit Robert T. Gonzalez, "An Interactive Map of Racist, Homophobic and Ableist Tweets...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...understand herself and to survive (7:28). Question and Answer Session About the Speakers E. Patrick Johnson is a scholar, artist, and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of African American Studies and...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Slave was named the best drama of the year by the Hollywood Foreign Press. Having been nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, expect the film...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...Fisher's new real estate venture in the mangrove swamps of south Florida—Miami Beach. Despite Fisher's self-interested agenda, the idea attracted broad support from farmers, businessmen and tourism promoters, automobile enthusiasts,...
Putting the Vernacular in Modernism: A Review of Edward Comentale's Sweet Air
...group continued to perform as a "family" band. These forces collectively projected an image of an imaginary bucolic South at odds with the realities of an industrializing New South. "In...
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), Methodist Church (MC), and the Presbyterian Church US (southern Presbyterians) following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. When these denominations voiced public support for the...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...Genesis of Free Labor: The Upper South (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 295. Matters improved little when Nichols was replaced by a military officer in the Quartermaster Department. African...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Foreign Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), reviewed in Southern Spaces at https://southernspaces.org/2018/slaveholding-empire-southerners-federal-authority-and-slave-power-abroad. Walker's notion of Texas as a safety valve proved enticing to many northern Democrats and Paulus...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...the US South, 1997–2007." Southern Spaces, June 10, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997–2007. Spitzer, Nick. "Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." Southern Spaces, November 28, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/creolization-cultural-continuity-and-creativity-postdiluvian-new-orleans-and-beyond....