Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...his PhD from Columbia University in 1993. Prof. Wiese’s areas of interest include the history of housing and residential landscapes, housing policy, suburbanization, and the spatial production of race and...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Confederacy Be Sung Back Together?" "Summer Water and Shirley" By Durango Mendoza Originally published in Prairie Schooner, volume XL, number 3 (Fall 1966) It was in the summer that had...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...
"This is Not Dixie:" The Imagined South, the Kansas Free State Narrative, and the Rhetoric of Racist Violence
...The total number of violent incidents identified in the sample undoubtedly represents only a fraction of those which actually transpired.16For an analysis of racist violence in Kansas, see Brent MacDonald...
Seneca Quarry
...The ARC Identifier is 3025595, MLR Number A1 18. Congratulations are in order for Professor Mark Auslander for publishing his well researched and excellent article, "Enslaved Labor and Building the...
Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism
...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...number one on Billboard's Pop charts and included "Ramblin' Man" and "Jessica." Leavell recorded two more albums before the Allmans disbanded. Emerging from the break-up with his rock/jazz/blues fusion group...
North Carolina: A State of Shock
...2011–2012 and 2012–2013. Even as GOP lawmakers found the funds to create a voucher system for private schools, they reduced the number of openings in the state's highly successful pre-K...
Deep Ellum Blues
...shacks, often with trees in the front and backyard gardens, sometimes even a chicken or two, along with the odd public housing project, small and squat, built around a desolate...