A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...Years a Slave (Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1853). From Archive.org. 12 Years a Slave was an important American story long before Steve McQueen put it on screen, and it was...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...(42, 47). As the numbers and voices of newer residents surpassed those of long-time residents, the diversity policy long understood as "fair and beneficial to children of all backgrounds" became...
Routes of Reconciliation: Visiting Sites of Cultural Trauma in the US South, Northern Ireland, and South Africa
...were surprised by the overwhelming majority of African Americans in attendance; it was Fourth of July Homecoming weekend for Mid-South black families and a visit to the museum has become...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...appropriate, by external subject matter experts. View selected blog post examples below: Solomon, Eric. "Love and Death in Mississippi." Southern Spaces, August 16, 2018. https://southernspaces.org/2018/love-and-death-mississippi/. Suitts, Steve. "States' Rights Resurgent:...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...work in the Depression-era South, particularly against the Dixiecrat bloc and voter suppression. I've also watched Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, a short documentary film on the 2018 midterm elections...
Vernacular and Universal Prejudice
...Americans and Dalits (formerly known as Untouchables), two long subordinated and stigmatized groups in the United States and India, respectively. The juxtaposition of two rather different locations and histories and,...
Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project
...history of the area had taken place along its banks. So we published a book about the creek, held a five-day festival along its banks, and established a park and...
Brushes with War
...Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Accession Number 22.207. Edging past Homer's iconic sniper, visitors to the DC venue had plenty to see—a display of sixty...
University of Texas Press and Southern Spaces Katrina Bookshelf Series Collaboration
...was nearly emptied of life. If measured by the number of lives it claimed, Katrina does not qualify as the worst disaster in our history. But it was far and away...
Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb
...than others. Sociologist Lindsey Freeman introduces one population who embraced the bomb and today longs for its glory days: soldiers, scientists, engineers, and workers of the Oak Ridge National Atomic...