A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...congressional districts in all states of the former Confederacy provide the bulk of opposition to immigration reform in Washington. Had Congress voted last year along the same lines as almost all representatives...
A Review of Matt Miller's Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans
...bounce, tracing the music's birth, development, and connection to the long trajectory of poor and working-class African American music-making in the city. In doing so, he offers not only a...
Nine Mile Circle Trolley, circa 1895
...a number of improvements have taken place in the city. "Along the sweep of the nine-mile circle several attractive homes have been erected, and those who have not been in...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...located east and west of downtown. Although most were common laborers, a small number, perhaps less than ten percent, stood above the masses by virtue of their occupation, education, or...
Crisis of the New Majority: Low-Income Students in the South's Public Schools
...Florida, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina, as well as in New Mexico, California, and a few other states outside the South, an increase in the number of Latino children appears...
Finding Media
...few favorite sites and search strategies for finding useable media: Public Domain and US Government works: The term "public domain" can be a little tricky—there are a number of caveats...
Voting Rights and Southern Legislatures Post-Shelby County v. Holder
Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2009. Photograph by Mark Fischer. Courtesy of Mark Fischer. As our bulletins have previously reported, legislatures in a number of southern states...
From A Field Guide to Etowah County
...brush long ago. Here, there is no cankered plum or split persimmon, sap or juice to bead, mimeograph bright, on the grass's nibs, and the grass does not whorl in...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...environmental history Examples Southern Spaces accepts submissions within seven genres of open access, multimedia scholarship: Articles are long-form, interpretive, or critical pieces that incorporate multimedia (including digital scholarship) and scholarly analysis...
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
...Dan. "Shadows along the Waccamaw." November 24, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/shadows-along-waccamaw. Alexander, Elizabeth. "Natasha Trethewey interveiws Elizabeth Alexander." December 10, 2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/natasha-trethewey-interviews-elizabeth-alexander. Brown, Jericho. "Naming Each Place." March 4, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/naming-each-place. Hill,...