DOIs and Altmetrics
...the circulation of a given piece, measuring circulation in badges that detail readers’ engagement. For example, the Altmetric page for Thomas Chase Hagood's "Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom", shows how many...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
...v. Holder held that section four of the VRA—which defined a formula to identify areas of the country (many of which were in southern states) that required changes to voting laws...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...the public schoolchildren in twenty-one states were eligible to receive free or reduced-price lunches, a benefit available only to families living in poverty or near-poverty. The report further documents that...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
...form, the images imply that such problems may continue to be critical today. Southern Spaces will be posting images from the FSA/OWI Color Photographs collection, with captions, to our Featured...
Southern Labor Studies Association Collaboration
...studies offerings and presenting significant new scholarship. We encourage scholars to submit panels that engage with ideas of space and place. Below is the SLSA's call for panels. The Many...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...states that seceded believed that it was their right to abandon the United States and to create their own nation in which they became citizens. Like other confederate states, Alabama's...
Music, Race, and Representation Post-Katrina: A Review of New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition
...a discussion of "consumer entitlement" (i.e. to what are outsider consumers of culture "entitled," and on what grounds and in what contexts?), a topic that continues to be at the...
Hillbilly Records, Zulu Yodels, and the Sounds of a Global South
Presentation Part 2: Nunn discusses how Rodgers’ music was appropriated and recontextualized in South Africa and Kenya in the 1930’s and 1940’s Part 3: Erich Nunn, Selected questions and answers About the...
Work
...University. Work You wake up knowing you'll work. You don't worry that circumstances will hurt your chances to choose your labor. It seems your choice is made. Reams of fabric...
Chattahoochee (excerpt)
...hung, turning all afternoon on the breeze. My rod bends towards breaking, then straightens as the fish darts free through the sunken junkyard that grows by the weight of one...