Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Between 1960 through 1970, non-Black Latino activists Elizabeth “Betita” Mártinez, Maria Varela, and Luis Zapata lent their support to the movement. As first-time travelers to/through...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...and place. But we can do better. We are a primarily academic publication housed in a university setting and staffed by graduate students and faculty members. We recognize we are...
Iconoclasm and the Confederacy: The Challenge of White Supremacy in the Memorial Landscape
Presentation Responses About the Speakers Kirk Savage is a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He has written extensively on public monuments within the theoretical context...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...of the drowned while teasing out the links between environmental degradation, those thrown overboard during the Middle Passage, and the migrants who drown while crossing the Mediterranean today. From these...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...across multiple disciplines. Presenting well-crafted articles, videos, reviews, interviews, and digital projects, these collections of free materials offer valuable resources for teaching, learning, and research. OER Commons logo, December 12,...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...The Southern Patriot. Cover of Free Thomas Wansley: A letter to white Southern women from Anne Braden, 1972. Print by John Wilson. Courtesy of Emory University's Manuscript, Archive, and Rare...
Imagining Southern Bodies: A Review of Sex, Sickness, and Slavery
...what Weiner calls "ambiguous bodies" (mixed race, sexual hybrids, and "monstrosities") and with the complex relationships between minds and bodies. Unfortunately, Weiner does not define her South. Her evidence derives...
MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection
Big City Bird’s Eye View. Artistic rendering by Dawud Anyabwile. Courtesy of Dawud Anyabwile. Antonio Valor. Character drawing by Dawud Anybwile. Courtesy of Dawud Anyabwile. Emory University’s Manuscript, Archives, and...
Remnants of Flannery
...29 event to promote the zine's release, writer Johnny Drago read a short fictional piece, "The Name of This is a Sacred Relic," inspired by Travis Ekmark's art for the...
The Bulletin—June 12, 2012
...a Task Force on Digital Scholarship to assess the state of digital scholarship in the historical profession, evaluate tenure and promotion practices and graduate training, and issue guidelines for the evaluation...