Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...Submissions are especially welcome before October 1, 2020. There is no submission fee or article processing charge. Visit our submissions page for more information. Southern Spaces does not consider previously...
Hillside Refuge: Tornado Shelters in Northeast Mississippi
...miles away on the plains."1Michael C. Robinson, "Natural Disasters," in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Volume 1, ed. Charles Reagan Wilson and William Ferris (New York: Anchor Books, 1989), 584....
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...studied by SEF registered an increase of about 140,000 private school students and more than 1.2 million public school students. For every student in private school in the South in...
Central America Protest, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 25, 1984
...staged a march commemorating the assassination of Salvadorian Archbishop Oscar Romero four years earlier. Both CASC and SDCA distributed leaflets and information to people leaving church services about their respective...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
Review Max Grivno's subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason Dixon Line, 1790–1860, details...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...how antebellum southern physicians—white males all—used information about their patients to advance their own professional and sectional political agendas.1Sadly, Professor Weiner died before the book was completed. Mazie Hough, assistant...
An Unlikely Bohemia: Athens, Georgia, in Reagan's America
...Hours," Red and Black, February 8, 1980, 5; "Interview with Danny Beard," Tasty World 3 [April 1985], 11; Jay Watson, "Local Groups Get Boost from DB Records," Red and Black,...
Mapping Souths
...lines.1William Henry Trescot, "The Position and Course of the South" (Charleston: Steam Power-Press of Walker and James, 1850), 8. Trescot's geographical logic struck a reviewer for DeBow's as absurd. "Would...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...visual media.8Ibid. 28, 78–82, 121–133. Still from Andy Warhol's Lonesome Cowboys, 1968. Image depicts Taylor Mead, Joe Dallesandro, and Eric Emerson. Andy Warhol Lonesome Cowboys, 1967–68 16mm film, color, sound,...
North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project
...North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1751–1840, http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/history/collection/RAS. Advertisement for a runaway slave, North Carolina Gazette, May 5, 1775. Courtesy of the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements database. While the...