Struggle Against Disease and Discrimination: The Jesse Peel Papers
Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...white oppression—as often they were—conveying the message that the power and keys to change rested with interventions of white citizens. "Fire Bomb Watch, Mileston, Mississippi, June 1, 1964." Community center...
History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street
Review In the early hours of June 29, 2014, a Bourbon Street shootout left twenty-one-year-old Brittany Thomas, a visitor to New Orleans, dead and nine other bystanders injured.1Ken Daley, "Bourbon...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
Introduction Julio Capó, Jr. during a curator's guided tour of the exhibition Queer Miami: A History of LGBTQ Communities, Miami, Florida, June 6, 2019. Photograph by Michele Reese. Courtesy of...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...Series." Gordon Parks: A Segregation Story, on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta through June 21, 2015, presents the published and unpublished photographs that Parks took during...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
Blog post In a case decided on the grounds of religious freedom, the US Supreme Court took another big step on June 30 in supporting religious discrimination in publicly financed...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...1991): 83–99; Michele Reis, "Theorizing Diaspora: Perspectives on 'Classical' and 'Contemporary' Diaspora," International Migration 42 (June 2004): 41–60; Robin Cohen, Global Diasporas: An Introduction (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997);...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
Donald Trump on immigration , presidential announcement speech, Trump Tower, New York, New York, June 16, 2015. Courtesy of Giphy. Donald Trump kicked off his large presidential campaign rally in...
Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone
...political geography to denote borderlands, especially ones to which members of subject or refugee populations migrated in large numbers to escape the pressures of the state and/or the capitalist economies...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...his mind flooded with dozens of cases of FHA discrimination. For example, he observed that, since he moved to Elbert County in 1952, the number of black farmers fell from...