Our Backward Revolution
...number of lawsuits challenging these tax-exempt segregated schools, a policy eventually affirmed by the Supreme Court in Bob Jones v. United States (1983). Right-wing Republican activists like Paul Weyrich claimed...
Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida
...a horrific scene. Fish up to two feet long, panting in the grass; sanitation workers removing the rotting carcasses; the city vowing to install a screen to keep saltwater species...
Submission Guidelines
...scholarship that relate to the study of space and place in the US South. Although we appreciate reviews that give synopses of scholarly work, our reviews should address the spatial...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...decoupled from both identity and a fixed sense of place. Scott Herring concurs. He provides a detailed overview of the growing scholarship on queer rural communities, concluding that "these artists...
Hearing the Call: The Cultural and Spiritual Journey of Rosemary McCombs Maxey
...put up on the screen. Rosemary McCombs Maxey looks at family photographs, Dustin, Oklahoma, 2015. Screenshot from Hearing the Call courtesy of Southern Spaces. As I, along with Rosemary herself...
Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus
...residents "placed tremendous strains on [school] facilities" (29, 20). This required building new schools at an astonishing rate. Even with 44 elementary schools, fifteen middle schools, and twelve high schools...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...in graduate school at the University of Illinois, attended a number of singings in his home state in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Encountering Wesleyan’s strong ethnomusicology program, Bruce...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...faculty in the office of faculty governance. Her publications include Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006). Whisnant is the scholarly advisor...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...nation. The South already has the nation's largest population of adults lacking a high school or college education. Map of Low-Income Students in Public Schools by State Public school systems...
The Other Side of Paradise: Glimpsing Slavery in the University's Utopian Landscapes
...cosmos as well as how those cosmological schemes are realized in lived social space. Yet, in practice the picture is more complex. The objectification of these schemes in tangible concrete...