Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...rights, and spaces demographic shifts in urban, suburban, and rural populations immigration, refugees, and citizenship incarceration, internment, and the carceral state public health, healthcare policy and access climate change and...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
Introduction Botanical illustration of Cannabis sativa L. Originally published in Professor Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé's Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (Gera, Germany: 1885). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...as the Environmental Defense Fund, and how grassroots organizations have long been critical of the overwhelming white, middle-class staffing and policy orientation of well-funded national groups based in Washington, DC....
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...to primary sources, is a core part of Wikipedia’s policy. , more Wikipedia users (read: almost everybody online) will have access to high quality information and ideas. At the same time,...
In Good Faith: Working-Class Women, Feminism, and Religious Support in the Struggle to Organize J. P. Stevens Textile Workers in the Southern Piedmont, 1974–1980
"TWUA" cheerleaders featured in Gloria Steinem's PBS series Woman Alive!, 1973–1974. In the spring of 1974, a dozen white and African American women and their daughters gathered outside the office...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...instrumental in shaping federal policy. During the Senate debate, Kenneth Keating documented eighty-eight bombing incidents between 1955 and 1960; at least sixteen of these incidents directly or indirectly involved the...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...history with public policy and the study of US political culture in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. His meditation on the paradoxes of de facto and...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...devastating and troubling account of blue-collar Americans and a portrait of the sorry state of public policy, but with a hopefulness about what needs to be done. I'm enjoying selectively...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
Introducción El dramaturgo Abel González Melo nació en 1980 en La Habana, Cuba, mismo año en que el Exodo del Mariel vio a aproximadamente 125,000 personas huir de su país, un evento que dramatiza...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...raise questions about the origin, replication, and entrenchment of health disparities; the ways that race and gender shape and are shaped by health policy; and the inseparable connection between health...