African American Suburban Development in Atlanta
...End of Southern Exceptionalism" conference held at Emory University in March of 2006, an event organized by Prof. Joseph Crespino of the Emory University History Department and Prof. Matt Lassiter...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act," Southern Spaces, August 29, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act. As a result, by voiding Section 5 and now greatly weakening Section 2, the Court...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...of English and American Studies at Oxford College, Emory University. His work is featured in Southern Spaces, south, Pop Matters, and Mississippi Quarterly. Julio Capó Jr. is an associate professor...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...a threat to "the southern way of life" that they tortured and killed him? How could a Mississippi court exonerate them? The story haunts us still, and more important, it...
Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo
...Virgilio Piñera (1912–1979), Abelardo Estorino (1925–2013), and Antón Arrufat (1935–) suffered tremendously under this censure, as much for their insistence on creative freedom as for their homosexuality. Surrounded by a...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...Conjugal Union: The Body, the Hours and the Black American (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Martha Southgate: What Came Before Cover, left, from Martha Southgate's Third Girl from the Left...
Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...County, West Virginia, for generations. "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment" presents images taken in 2005 and 2006 during Dotter's trips to towns in eastern Kentucky and southern West...
Trouble the Land: Atlanta Student Movement
...way, I can behave the same way." Our classmates included African students, who were so smug in their condemnation of our inaction. They’d say, "Listen, we’re freeing our nations. We’re...
Saints at the River and Selected Poems
...American Poets Prize, the Sherwood Anderson Award, the Fellowship of Southern Writers' James Still Award for Writing of the Appalachian South, the O. Henry Prize, and the Southern Book Critic...
Ossabaw Island Flyover
...Pleistocene (Silver Bluff) and Holocene shorelines on Ossabaw split near its southern portion, with the Pleistocene trending north–south and the Holocene trending northeast–southwest. The modern shoreline, which formed only in...