Mississippi Delta
...century later, writer Richard Ford called the Delta "the South's South." In the 1990s, historian James Cobb referred to it as the "most southern place on earth." Few other regions...
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...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...states' voting laws and protect minority voters is substantially diminished. As Steve Suitts argued in a recent Southern Spaces piece ("Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...End of Southern Exceptionalism" conference held at Emory University in March of 2006, an event organized by Prof. Joseph Crespino of the Emory University History Department and Prof. Matt Lassiter...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...the transformation of once vital neighborhoods on the South and West Sides, where the housing and infrastructure started to crack and crumble. Southern migrant Geri Oliver, owner of the celebrated...
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...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...The Attack on the Voting Rights Act." Southern Spaces, August 29, 2013. https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act. Wilkerson, Jessica. "You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian History." Southern Spaces, March 12, 2019....
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...
Driving Through Time: The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
...construction of materials from numerous sources, has recently been published by Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a program of the University of North Carolina Library System. A coming addition will...