The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...
Good-Bye to All That?
...posted on their websites and promoted through all forms of social media, including Facebook. They described the kinds of constructive measures that have worked across Transylvania County to develop environmentally...
Deep Ellum Blues
...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
Submit all inquiries and materials to Southern Spaces managing editor Madison Elkins at seditor@emory.edu. Submissions are especially welcome before October 15th, 2017, but will be considered on a rolling basis....
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...longer articles and media productions, that address the continuing public health and political implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. Queries and abstracts are also welcome. Southern Spaces is an open access,...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...their presence did not necessarily invert or challenge white supremacist codes. In the Jackson Tract, black foremen served under the command of the white bosses who paid them to coerce...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...a growing interest not just in maintaining existing theaters, but in constructing new ones.7"Drive-in Theater Search," Drive-ins.com, http://drive-ins.com/srchdest.htm?name=&city=&code=al&status_op=open&search.x=13&search.y=12. Six of Alabama's ten drive-ins opened since 1996.8Calvin R. Trice, "Couple seek...
Crosses, Flowers, and Asphalt: Roadside Memorials in the US South
...dirt track racers defying death in stripped-down vehicles with high performance engines, the glitz and product promotion of modern day NASCAR, and the window-tinted, stretch-limo world of rap culture. Country...
Documenting Migrants: An Interview with Charles D. Thompson
...is how the dialogue played out. POV and Reception What points of view do The Guestworker and Brother Towns present and how have people and groups responded? Welcome to Wester...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...life in a region where Spanish-speaking migrants and immigrants are variously welcomed, tolerated, and scorned. In recent years, Latin American immigrants comprised the largest population of new arrivals to Atlanta:...