Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
Sarita Alami, THATCamp Feminisms South participants edit wikipedia pages for TooFEW, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, March 15, 2013. Southern Spaces has had a long and sometimes sordid relationship with Wikipedia....
Mississippi: State of Confession
...Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), Methodist Church (MC), and the Presbyterian Church US (southern Presbyterians) following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. When these denominations voiced public support for the...
Good-Bye to All That?
...North Carolina (bottom). Maps by Southern Spaces, 2014. I also discovered (as I had during the May primary) that it was relatively easy to spot most Republicans before handing them...
The Crowd He Becomes
...have done it it wouldn't have been alone, he would have had a driver and a man out west to phone in threats to draw the cops away. They'd ease...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...the US South, 1997–2007." Southern Spaces, June 10, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997–2007. Spitzer, Nick. "Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." Southern Spaces, November 28, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/creolization-cultural-continuity-and-creativity-postdiluvian-new-orleans-and-beyond....
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...West, the southernmost point in the continental US. Your trip from Atlanta is fourteen hours. You leave at midnight. You arrive in Key West at 4:00 pm. You are tired....
States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act
...in their corner of the new world, most southern delegates claimed their states should have a sovereign right to govern their internal affairs without interference from a national government—largely to...
A Woman's Work: Jim Crow Modernity and the Remaking of the Carceral State
...first book contributes immensely to US southern, economic, gender, and political history. Examining the experiences of black female convicts in Georgia between emancipation and the 1920s, No Mercy Here enriches...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...a threat to "the southern way of life" that they tortured and killed him? How could a Mississippi court exonerate them? The story haunts us still, and more important, it...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...family dimensions of this process. Video of Prof. Odem was taken at "The End of Southern Exceptionalism" conference held at Emory University in March of 2006, an event organized by...