Mississippi: State of Confession
...suasion be separated from boycotts and legal appeals? Similar to white evangelicalism and white supremacy, movement activities—sit-ins, boycotts, voter registration drives, and judicial involvement—expressed the joining of sacred and secular...
Rose Library Highlights: Amos Kennedy, Jr.
...various places, including a "ten-year apprenticeship" in the US South, as well as his current home base in Detroit, Michigan. Reflecting on how location informs his artistic process, Kennedy encouraged others to adopt a "just do it mentality" by drawing...
Southern Spaces Recommends
...The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia. It's true crime that thoughtfully, and critically, examines Appalachia as a place, real and imagined. Carol Anderson, Southern Spaces editorial board...
Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City
...of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/pictures/item/2014632507/. But Austin stands out in its approach to growth. The uniqueness of Tretter’s argument lies in the local circumstances that elites used to...
And the Prize Goes to...
...identify and explore various methodological approaches in preparation for this project.To achieve such an intense reading load, the class first brainstormed how to read before discussing what we read. I...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...and more stories of twenty- and thirty-somethings of my demographic—and by my demographic, I mean hipsters with MFAs in creative writing—moving there. Apparently, this is a trend, so says Richard...
Submission Guidelines
...scholarship that relate to the study of space and place in the US South. Although we appreciate reviews that give synopses of scholarly work, our reviews should address the spatial...
Aunt Narcissa's Quilt [ca 1880]
...brown-and-yellow stripe, appears to have been reused from an earlier use. She sewed together three lengths of the twenty-five-inch-wide fabric, but that apparently proved insufficient. Along one long edge, a...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...to children born in the United States if their parents are not lawful residents. A crowd of at least twenty thousand, almost all-white, roared their approval of Trump's condemnation of...
Discursive Memorials: Queer Histories in Atlanta's Public Spaces
...residents on their porches and the Jolly Twelve instilled in him a quick defensive wit. This might appear as a bold act of claiming queer public space, although it can...