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....
Good-Bye to All That?
...vote, losing to a widely disliked Republican opponent who had led the GOP's attack on public education in North Carolina. In her 2008 election, Hagan had lost to Elizabeth Dole...
Deep Ellum Blues
...1935. Deep Ellum became one of the signature references for the group, including songs such "Just Because You're in Deep Ellum" and "What's the Matter with Deep Elm?" (the spelling...
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...
Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters
...try to involve their children in the operation; one son even dons a tiger suit to promote the theater during special events. Commerce Drive-In - Commerce, Georgia Two parallel driveways...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...elaborate networks of peonage labor that involved trafficking workers, coercing their labor, and threatening criminal prosecution or even death if they attempted to flee. Scholars such as Pete Daniel, Jacqueline...
An Interview with Tim Gautreaux: "Cartographer of Louisiana Back Roads"
...novel about psychologically damaged warriors, that's just the way it happens. In a way, all wars are the same war. The other novel, The Missing—really, the novels can be analyzed...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
...Canton, GA, 8 August 2003. Manuel Guzmán concurred, "It is dangerous [at a street corner]. I feel more safe here. People respect you. I like the list. I feel comfortable...
Submission Guidelines
Southern Spaces is an open-access, multidisciplinary, digital journal that welcomes thoughtful perspectives about real and imagined places and spaces of the US South. We also invite research and commentary about...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...have two grindstones. One involves interfacing with a machine in ways that are sometimes difficult and tedious, much like archival work. Sometimes we are wrestling with code and how to...