Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...interdisciplinary intellectual enterprises, perhaps particularly American studies writ large. We realize only too well that just a generation ago southern studies marched obstinately in the rearguard of American studies both...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...and includes items belonging to African American slaves and Native Americans, people involuntarily brought to Virginia and those who were decimated and pushed out. “No native Indian in Virginia is...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers." Southern Spaces, December 21, 2007, https://southernspaces.org/2007/geographies-hope-and-despair-atlantas-african-american-latino-and-white-day-laborers. Frederickson, Mary E. "Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South." Southern Spaces, December...
The Law and the Mississippi Basin: A Review of Mississippi River Tragedies
...continental United States. From their arrival on the banks of North America's greatest river and its tributaries, European and American settlers realized that economic development in the flood-prone region would...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
Series editor: Mary E. Frederickson, Emory University. Submission deadline: March 31, 2015. Questions: Contact managing editor Jesse P. Karlsberg. From Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci, "The Color of Democracy: A Japanese Public Health...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...number of reported tornadoes in the state each year is twenty-five, with sixty-two the highest number reported in a single year, and five the fewest. The average number of tornado-related...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
Submission deadline: March 17, 2016. Submission requirements: 300–500 word proposal. Questions: Contact managing editor Meredith Doster at seditor@emory.edu. The interdisciplinary online journal Southern Spaces invites researchers, writers, teachers, artists, documentary...
Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology
...live below the poverty level, a number almost double the US average. When compared to other southern cities, the Memphis poverty rate of 23.5 percent is the same as Atlanta's...
Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
...the vast rural estate. Women receive health services, Emory University Field Station on Ichauway Plantation, ca. 1938–1945, Baker County, Georgia. Photograph by United States Public Health Services Office of Malaria...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...that leads to the arrest and prosecution of the killers. If you have information of the lynchings, please contact: The GBI – 404-244-2600 or the FBI – 404-679-9000. For more...