Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South
...campus of a major university that pulls 60 percent of its student population from metro Atlanta, the most important city in the South. Three likely leaders of tomorrow." But I...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...gender. As Hardwig notes, "Neither Murfree nor Chesnutt felt the need to obey the demands of a gendered and racialized sense of authenticity, but their readership and editors imposed it...
The Change
...it floods my memory. Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...
The State House Aflame 1833
Fire can burn brands on a slave's skin as he changes hands like cattle. And chattel slavery in a capital city is as old as fire and man. Milledgeville's no...
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective
American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...is originally from Panama City, Florida. In the play a group of gay characters ponder how "we need our community, we need our history. How else can we teach the...
Gold Records in Deep Space
...Picture Arts and Sciences to review the veracity of the film. His approach reveals more than a director's preference for primary sources, more than the creation of authentic-seeming material to...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...and celebrate the southern writer’s capacity to resist unexamined norms that allow any system of dominance to roll on unchallenged. These resistant literatures, with greater impact than southern literary history...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...Beverly-Jean Daniel, "Teaching while Black: racial dynamics, evaluations, and the role of White females in the Canadian academy in carrying the racism torch," Race, Ethnicity, and Education 22, no. 1...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...investigation exonerated the victims of any crimes, no law enforcement officer or member of the posse who took part in the atrocity faced charges for the murders. In detailing the...