A Green Democratic Revolution
...be reformulated in view of the ecological exigency, and this involves struggles both at the level of production and at the level of reproduction—that is, reproduction understood in the wide...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...nation through assimilation or absorption (85). Cover to Karl Jacoby's The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave who Became a Mexican Millionaire (New York: W.W. Norton, 2016). In 1894, William Ellis,...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...access journal, Southern Spaces is committed to supporting our authors in communicating the value of their publications to tenure and promotion committees. Members of such committees may not have experience...
Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art
...Elsewhere, men and women have been painted in blackface, to reference minstrel shows that so disparaged African American culture. Women are also implicated. Elegantly dressed and coiffed, they may hold...
How I Shed My Skin
...Race Traitor from 1999. In contrast to the dance floor, the gospel chorus remained color-coded. Inherited from the all-black high school, the chorus had no white members after consolidation. In...
Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!
...construction, Freedom Summer, Mileston, Mississippi, June, 1964. Photograph by Matt Herron. Copyright by Matt Herron/Take Stock/The Image Works. Mileston Summer volunteer carpenter, Jim Boebel, and a local resident post a...
The Seventeenth Southern Writers Symposium: September 19–20, 2003 at Methodist College, Fayetteville, North Carolina
The Mere Region by Robert Jackson A critical review of some of T.S. Eliot's narrowly ideological invocations of region encourages us to clarify and redefine the term, for Eliot's own...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
Review Max Grivno's subtle and remarkably textured history of labor in northern Maryland and southern Pennsylvania, Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor along the Mason Dixon Line, 1790–1860, details...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...a chorus of animals: "'I'm hungry. I want to poop.' But sometimes they start talking in codes." How do we make our way into the coded life of other species?...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Mary Ellen's heightened Weathers's awareness about Black experience in the United States through conversations she had with Mary Ellen, a Black male acquaintance nicknamed Mr. Elegance, and white and Mexican...