Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...South. Although southern rural music expressed the hopes, aspirations, failures, and hardships of rural people, farming culture remained invisible to most listeners. The work culture that produced the music—farmers plowing,...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...Education Betsy DeVos’s plan to spend billions of federal dollars on private school vouchers. Sign protesting Betsy DeVos at a rally, October 13, 2017. Photograph by Flickr user Backbone Campaign....
Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Quilts of Gwendolyn Ann Magee
...chain, refused to carry the issue: "Some of the images are disturbing—and moving—like quilter Gwen Magee's Southern Heritage/Southern Shame, which depicts five lynching victims hanging in front of a Confederate...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
...Emma Lirette, "Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters," Southern Spaces, April 17, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/blog/category-3-gentrification-new-orleanss-population-trends-and-hostility-internet-commenters. Campanella's characterization of black New Orleanians is as...
The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War
Video Part 2: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American Civil War Part 3: The Greatest Slave Rebellion in Modern History: Southern Slaves in the American...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...Stanford University in 2002. His research interests focus on the political culture of twentieth-century America, in particular, the US South. Crespino's first book, In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...contribute to tenure and promotion, we are sharing details of Southern Spaces' readership reports process in this post. Southern Spaces visits, September 1, 2012–August 31, 2013. Screenshot from Google Analytics....
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...these pages is ideally suited for the reevaluation of civil rights liberalism that Gadsden promotes. Between North and South's focus on Delaware also allows for a critique of some facile...
Marching for Gay Rights in Atlanta, 1971: An Excerpt from A Night at the Sweet Gum Head
..."drag superstar" Rachel Wells, and the activist and trailblazer Bill Smith, who is featured in Padgett's excerpt published here with "Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces." Padgett, too, is central to...
Before Tuskegee: Public Health and Venereal Disease in Hot Springs, Arkansas
...contended that southern blacks were "little better than animals with strong sexual passions."87 Thompson, Syphilis, 52. Some believed that emancipation constituted the primary cause of syphilis's spread "among the negro...