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...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...a pink flamingo in front of a setting (or rising) sun: Gay Men's Chorus South Florida. Even as the program begins, as queer activists discuss the history of the HIV/AIDS...
Contesting the Roadways: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment and a Confederate Flag Rally, July 25, 2015
...Klux Klan held a pro-Confederate flag rally at the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia. Many other "Protect the Flag" rallies popped up, mainly in the South. The Southern Poverty...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic
Owning the Plantation South in the Fiction of the Early Republic Part 2: Greeson explores how early national writers contrast the “Plantation South” with the nascent republican US Part 3: Greeson explores...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...The Attack on the Voting Rights Act." Southern Spaces, August 29, 2013. https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act. Wilkerson, Jessica. "You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian History." Southern Spaces, March 12, 2019....
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...
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...