Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...construed, encourage critical thinking for the betterment of civic society. HyperCities leaves specific tensions between the roots of these digital technologies and their adoption by humanities-driven scholars under-explored. Aside from briefly...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...Construction Industry (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010). To challenge the way in which contemporary discourses of "labor shortage" and "work ethic" can mask these intertwined histories, and to better...
Television News and the Civil Rights Struggle: The Views in Virginia and Mississippi
...Journal, June 4, 1963. Image courtesy of Flickr user elycefeliz. Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Historians, commentators, and participants have suggested connections between the media, especially television news, and...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...islands that buffer the mainland from the Atlantic Ocean. For example, marshlands declined 16 per cent between 1852 to 1960 due largely to sea level rise. Moreover, between 1872 and...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
...derivative works, such as those "consisting of editorial revisions, annotations, elaborations, or other modifications which, as a whole, represent an original work of authorship."1"17 US Code, Chapter 1, Section 101–Definitions,"...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...possibilities where new ideas about the disease and its cure emerged, the boundaries between colonial possession and the imperial state blurred, and new medicalized stereotypes about populations were forged, transformed,...
Going South, Coming North: Migration and Union Organizing in Morristown, Tennessee
...understanding the relationship between immigrant and native-born workers, see Barbara Smith, “Market Rivals or Class Allies? Relations between African American and Latino Immigrant Workers in Memphis,” in Global Connections and...
Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia
...Spaces, I am invested in making our journal better and in promoting open-access knowledge, so I spend time thinking about Wikipedia. On my to-do list for a while has been...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...access journal, Southern Spaces is committed to supporting our authors in communicating the value of their publications to tenure and promotion committees. Members of such committees may not have experience...
A Well-Tied Knot: Atlanta's Mobility Crisis and the 2012 T-SPLOST Debate
...in its advertisements and promotional materials. Even in Democratic Clayton County, campaign spots promoted the creation of a super-arterial highway along Tara Boulevard, but said precious little about the resuscitation...