Visualizing Spatial History: The Example of Rio de Janeiro
...is the author of Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro and co-editor of From Silver to Cocaine: Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy....
No Country for Old Hippies: Jason Mellard's Progressive Country
...Press, 1974). Reid has revised this earlier book. See The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock: New Edition (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004). Austin clubs, notably Armadillo World Headquarters (1970)...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...for Martinican thinker Édouard Glissant, relies on the power of the composite. She helpfully extends Glissant's concept of creolization—which he would apply to cultural production—to the material and ecological world...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
..."DDT Disbelievers: Health and the New Economic Poisons in Georgia after World War II." Southern Spaces, October 28, 2016. https://southernspaces.org/2016/ddt-disbelievers-health-and-new-economic-poisons-georgia-after-world-war-ii. Cooper, Brittney. "#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black...
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: A Gilded Age Story of the West and the South in Washington, DC
Corporations, Corruption, and the Modern Lobby: Part 2: White describes the lengths both men went to in an attempt to gain subsidies and credit for their respective railroads Part 3: White shows...
The Same Language: A Memoir by Ben Duncan
Video...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...recorded by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long. I've also been listening to some music that's helping me adapt to this new world we're in: "World of Strange Design"...
Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy
...the natural world merged into one. How do you represent the horrific legacy of slavery without the bodies of the enslaved? Historically, abolitionist writers and editors built their political critiques...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
Review I remember well seeing Charles Moore's fire hose photographs from Birmingham in my hometown newspaper, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Six-years old in 1963, I had little understanding of the day's...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
Introduction Map of Major Indian Tribes in the "South,"circa 1750 I borrow only my title from Alfred Kazin's 1942 study On Native Grounds, an influential reading of modern American prose...