Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...gerrymandering; voter suppression; voting patterns) Pandemic voting (voting rights; ballot initiatives; mail-in voting; voter access; United States Postal Service) Political activism (social justice; movements and mobilization; countermovements; grassroots efforts; the...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...ideas and activism. Daniel Immerwahr's How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States (2019) forever alters readers' perception of the national map, outlining the extent and...
Editors
...Divide, a New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. She is also the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...different navigation corridors, despite the fluidity and vulnerability of its terrain. Similarly, Theriot's account suggests that what constitutes a site's situatedness—its economic linkages to other places—is always relative and embedded...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...style and formatting. Please submit proposals (350–700 words), papers, or projects to seditor@emory.edu by February 15, 2013. Related Southern Spaces Links Amberg, Rob. "I-26, Corridor of Change." Southern Spaces, June 5, 2007, https://southernspaces.org/2007/i-26-corridor-change. ...
Demon Rum and Politics in Middle Florida: A Review of Southern Prohibition
...critical periods in Florida history. Willis ignores the impact of World War I and its many implications upon the home front. Historians addressing Prohibition reform at the national level link...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
Sams Gap, North Carolina
...mountain road in northern Madison County, NC, sitting in the middle of what would eventually be an interstate linkage. The need for something to be done to North Carolina's side...
"Gaps in People's Lacks": James Franco's As I Lay Dying
...links him with his shiftless and shady father, Anse, and that separates him from his mother who whips her schoolchildren, and his siblings who we actually witness toiling. Franco's Darl...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...linked to the booms and busts of nineteenth-century global capitalism. Its decline in Maryland was contingent; farmers only began to turn against slavery as part of a wider process of...