Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Tom Rankin, Delta Winter, Bolivar County, Mississippi, 2010. Tom Rankin is stepping down as the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University after fifteen years of service....
DOIs and Altmetrics
...By adopting digital object identifiers (DOIs) and partnering with Altmetric, Southern Spaces continues to model best practices in digital publishing. All Southern Spaces pieces now include DOIs that provide a...
Local Color
...that local color writing first articulated for American audiences. From William Faulkner in the Delta to Flannery O'Connor in middle Georgia to Lee Smith in the Appalachians, the South's best...
Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in Native American Literature: A Panel Discussion
...Indian literary studies, Greg Sarris’s Keeping Slug Woman Alive: A Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts (1993) is a delight to read because of the way it combines excellent storytelling...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...compelled fugitives and Christians to find new sites for these and other forbidden activities. Neighborhood was an important space in slave society, but it did not delimit the boundaries of...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...History Project, will each deliver a keynote address. The symposium will convene an interdisciplinary meeting of scholars and community activists concerned with issues related to Atlanta. We are also eager...
Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye
...at Emory University. He received his PhD in history from Northwestern University. His book, Victory Without Triumph: School Desegregation in Delaware, is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press....
Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence
...critique of the ways diversity ideology plays out would be a valuable extension of Behind the White Picket Fence, delving into the processes by which white parents rationalize valuing diversity...
Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces
...As a digital journal, Southern Spaces delivers audio, video, images, text, and data to facilitate new ways of presenting and interpreting content. "African American Art and Aesthetic Experiences" organizes examples...
A Mind To Stay Here: Closing Conference Comments on Southern Exceptionalism
A Mind to Stay Here Part 2: Egerton compares his observations in The Americanization of Dixie with social conditions today Part 3: Egerton traces recent politics in the New South, noting how...