Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
...and other Kodaks. Many of these photographers owned their own studios or made photographs for local publications and other purposes. Their portraits and photographs of street scenes, church services, rural...
Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered
...as the largest urban center in the American South could not be sidestepped. "The Games pose the question about just which image is closer to the real South," Peter Applebome...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Tom Rankin, Delta Winter, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 2010. Tom Rankin is stepping down as the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University after fifteen years of service....
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...expanding to discuss medical science’s responsibility to queer subjects. Homosexuality was considered a mental disorder up until 1973, and the American Psychiatric Association (APA) didn’t officially rule reparative therapies as...
Editorial Style Guide
...does not capitalize "civil rights movement." Identifiers related to race, cultural identity, or ethnicity: Southern Spaces capitalizes racial and ethnic identifiers (e.g. Latinx, Asian American, Native American, African American); racial...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
Review In this short book, distinguished political scientist Adolph L. Reed, Jr. offers remembrances from his early life below the Mason-Dixon line as a member of the last African American...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?": Part Two
...wages ("Tallapoosa County, Alabama: Civil War Pension"). But in the renewed onslaught of reaction in the South—where lynching of African American men and the rape of African American women became...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
Essay In early 1943, John Yoshida escaped from the American concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas.1This essay is adapted from John Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the...
You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History
...When those jobs disappeared, no other industry filled the gap and more people entered the low-wage service economy, surviving with little in the way of workplace benefits or economic security....
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...black voters. Over the course of the next three years, the MARTA board invited its critics to the negotiating table and the system was reinvented as a genuine public service...