Managing Malaria: The Emory University Field Station and The Melvin H. Goodwin Papers
Southern Spaces is pairing with Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) to publish short features on MARBL collections, events, and exhibits that tell the history of spaces...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...and the readership of the Atlantic Monthly in which these stories appeared" (2). Hardwig's cogent and concise book helps us to understand the outsize role that gulf played in determining...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...readers to see the consequences of environmental decision-making in the Savannah and its tributaries.2 Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (New York: Penguin Books, 1986)....
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
Review In Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City journalist and educator Natalie Hopkinson uses go-go—the ultra-local style of African American popular music that has dominated...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...and, I might be rushing ahead, but it's a deeply troubling phenomenon as a Native American person in this country to know who took what you have. Who took our...
A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...throughout the 1940s and 1950s. On June 11, 1963, Foster Auditorium entered the national spotlight when Alabama governor George Wallace refused to allow two African American students, Vivian Malone and...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...went into arms and by mid-March 2021, a quarter of the population had received at least one vaccine; six months later that number rose to 85 percent. Although Black Democrats...
On Maps, Race, and Diasporic Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Brazil
...study, in the 1940s, Louise E. Jefferson – a noted African American illustrator and designer – produced a series of works meant to interrogate presumptions of whiteness and the fixity...
LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House
...Museum serves as one of Atlanta's premiere institutions of African American and African diasporic art. The July 12, 2015, event was titled #homeplace, an homage to bell hooks's essay about black women's homes as sites of resistance and to Hammonds...
Confederate Literary Nationalism: Coleman Hutchison's Apples and Ashes
...a contribution to American literature or, alternately, as an expression of the regional or national distinctiveness of the South (61). He contends that the aims of antebellum southern nationalists were...