A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...English-only laws that paved the way for the segregation of Mexicans in public schools. Outraged over the unequal treatment of their children, Mexican Americans in San Angelo protested, asserting their...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...claim, and finally queering or not queering. In this way, to queer is to exist as subjects in the transitive space of choice between doing and not doing. The question...
MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas: Transforming the Humanities with Geo-Spatial Analysis
...the historical art market. In a world where maps abound on pocket devices and where we make wayfinders with a few clicks on our screens, we may forget the complexities...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
Review Bohemia Spillway New Distributary, Mardi Gras Pass, March 2012. Photograph by the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. Courtesy of the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation. A curious thing happened in Louisiana...
Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use
...the rights of libraries, not limit the scope of their fair use rights in any way, shape or form. Given the text says "Nothing in this section . . ....
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...for "North Carolina: A State of Shock" by Dan T. Carter, 2013. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. There are several ways in which we take advantage of the accessibility of our...
"Rights Still Being Righted": Scottsboro Eighty Years Later
...of the Library of Congress. The eightieth anniversary of the arrests brought an unlikely collection of people to Scottsboro: a federal district judge from Detroit; a Broadway producer; a high...
Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art
...series represents "Parks'[s] consequential rethinking of the types of images that could sway public opinion on civil rights."3Maurice Berger, "With a Small Camera Tucked in My Pocket," in Gordon Parks,...
Bear Branch, North Carolina
...for the source of a spring on the highway right-of-way, Bear Branch, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Published: 5 June 2007 © 2007 Rob Amberg and Southern Spaces...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...the way "southern literature" would be both marketed and received in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This quietly ambitious study reminds us that we cannot understand the phenomenon of nineteenth-century...