Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
...examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into race relations and urban layout Part 4: Dr. McGrath discusses school desegregation, highlighting Georgia's Pupil Placement Laws and Atlanta civic organizations...
Plantation Romances and Slave Narratives: Symbiotic Genres
Introduction Many of the novels that we call plantation romances also bear a different name: we know them and see them discussed as "Anti-Tom novels," written implicitly or explicitly to...
Southern Spaces Recommends
Blog Post Eric Solomon, "Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces" series editor: I've been on a reading streak the past few months. Here are a few I recommend. In terms of...
John Yoshida in Arkansas, 1943
Essay In early 1943, John Yoshida escaped from the American concentration camp at Jerome, Arkansas.1This essay is adapted from John Howard, Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
Essay For over thirty years, historians in the United States have written about slavery in terms broached by John Blassingame's path-breaking book The Slave Community (1972). Blassingame, George Rawick, Lawrence...
The Border South
Defining the Border Anyone who has lived for a time in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, or Maryland has heard their place of residence categorized as "not really the South." Sometimes, folks...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
Latinos, the largest minority group in US public schools, are surpassing African Americans as the most segregated racial or ethnic group nationally. This isolation is well documented in states like...
The Future of Slavery's Historical Spaces
Essay At historical plantation sites, where the subject of slavery is difficult to avoid, Park Service interpreters struggle to present the subject in the least offensive manner. Interpreters at Arlington...
Timber, Equity, and Ethics
Video About the Author Susan Hamill is a Professor of Law at University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa and an analyst of tax law. She is the author...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
Blog Post Camille Goldmon, editorial associate: I'm rereading Patricia Sullivan's Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. It's a monograph on liberal New Dealers and their...