"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...US South—Texas specifically—and as a queer southerner from Texas myself, I wondered what insights her collection might offer about LGBTQ+ experience in our home state. I never expected to come...
Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion
...adopted Southeast Indian sons effectively thwarted state and federal claims to their lands, so much so that Southern slaveholders advocated for the forced removal of Southeast Indian nations west of...
Spirits of the Landscape Rediscovered: Ras Michael Brown's African-Atlantic Cultures and the South Carolina Lowcountry
...Michael Brown joins a small group of scholars who are re-engaging the United States, particularly the Anglophone American South, in conversations about African-Atlantic religions. He situates the South Carolina Lowcountry...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...2009. https://southernspaces.org/2009/same-sex-intimacy-fiction-about-southern-plantations. Chenault, Wesley, Andy Ditzler, and Joey Orr. "Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces." Southern Spaces, February 26, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/discursive-memorials-queer-histories-atlantas-public-spaces. Chesnut, Saralyn, Amanda C. Gable, and Elizabeth...
Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigrants in Atlanta
...current research project, Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South (2009), addresses the socio-cultural contexts, processes, and transformations of Latin American migration to the US South since 1965....
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Southern Spaces combines innovative scholarship about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South with the tools of digital media. We publish work that represents and analyzes many souths...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...finds "a select number" of black southerners in Mexican settlements after the Civil War, and that the "dual movement of southerners" was "greatly skewed toward white migrants" (xxii, 26). A much larger...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...largely on biographer Catherine Fosl’s book, Subversive Southerner (2006), Southern Patriot is narrated principally by Braden. Fosl makes multiple appearances, recounting in a riveting statement early on that throughout Braden's...
Nascent Nations: A Review of Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
...South Carolina. And, less than one century later, multiethnic towns would again extend across the South. In Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South, Robin Beck uses an...