Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...rights, and spaces demographic shifts in urban, suburban, and rural populations immigration, refugees, and citizenship incarceration, internment, and the carceral state public health, healthcare policy and access climate change and...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
Introduction Botanical illustration of Cannabis sativa L. Originally published in Professor Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thomé's Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (Gera, Germany: 1885). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
...as the Environmental Defense Fund, and how grassroots organizations have long been critical of the overwhelming white, middle-class staffing and policy orientation of well-funded national groups based in Washington, DC....
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...to primary sources, is a core part of Wikipedia’s policy. , more Wikipedia users (read: almost everybody online) will have access to high quality information and ideas. At the same time,...
Counterblast: How the Atlanta Temple Bombing Strengthened the Civil Rights Cause
...instrumental in shaping federal policy. During the Senate debate, Kenneth Keating documented eighty-eight bombing incidents between 1955 and 1960; at least sixteen of these incidents directly or indirectly involved the...
Desegregation, Delaware, and Civil Rights Liberalism: A Review of Brett Gadsden's Between North and South
...history with public policy and the study of US political culture in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. His meditation on the paradoxes of de facto and...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...devastating and troubling account of blue-collar Americans and a portrait of the sorry state of public policy, but with a hopefulness about what needs to be done. I'm enjoying selectively...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
Introducción El dramaturgo Abel González Melo nació en 1980 en La Habana, Cuba, mismo año en que el Exodo del Mariel vio a aproximadamente 125,000 personas huir de su país, un evento que dramatiza...
The World of Chick-Fil-A and the Business of Sunbelt Evangelicalism
...and labor Part 7: Q&A with Grem. Topics include a cost-benefit analysis of Chick-Fil-A’s Sunday closing policy About the Author Darren E. Grem received his PhD in history from the University...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...2.6 jobs for American workers. Asian immigrants frequently come with or earn advanced degrees. What are the policy implications of this phenomenon for the region? What does this blind spot...