The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...an in-depth interview with Trethewey, and eight critical essays. Southern Spaces is happy to have supported the Southern Quarterly by granting permission to include a number of images of Trethewey...
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...
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...
Nashville, Tennessee images
...Complex. Tourists and Legends Corner, Lower Broadway Legends Corner bills itself as "an authentic downtown honky-tonk." Gaylord Opryland Hotel Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...
Memphis, Tennessee images
...Autozone Park is the home to the Memphis Redbirds, the AAA affiliate of the National League's St. Louis Cardinals. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...the summer and fall of 2013. Sommers details how some Okefenokee residents understood Sacred Harp singing as a regional, rather than religious denominational practice. This way of thinking about the...
Sea Changes in Personhood
...Keith Walker (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, 2012). Allewaert's rethinking of the swamp as a space of agency is of particular value for the study and teaching of many American literary...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...work-in-progress that would benefit from open conversation. Please include audio-video requirements in your proposal. Please send proposal via email to disc@emory.edu by 5pm on February 15. Contact Stewart Varner (stewart.varner@emory.edu) with any...
Birth Right
...policies. At the heart of this issue is the question of choice. Current laws deny many healthy women a choice in their birth plans. In Alabama, it is legal for...
Recording Musical History: An Interview with Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital Records
Interview...