Spatial Humanities and Modes of Resistance: A Review of HyperCities
...This multi-media interplay is a relatively new convention for academic writing. Here, old-school New Historicist methods comingle with explications of computer code and user interface to demonstrate how digital technologies...
Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations
...expanded their footprint into ever new territories across Latin America. The timing was unique: the process occurred right as enslavement, the foundation of these enterprises, was being subjected to unprecedented...
Brushes with War
...1670 through the Stono Rebellion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974), Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), and three recent books on black...
Reuse, Author Choice, and the Open Access Spectrum: New Creative Commons Licenses for Southern Spaces Authors
Southern Spaces is now offering authors the option of distributing new work published in the journal under a Creative Commons license. Beginning in 2014, in addition to retaining copyright of...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...and few scholars explore their role in resource development before the New Deal. In contrast, Manganiello demonstrates that companies like Duke Power and Georgia Power in the Catawba and Savannah...
How the Court Killed the Voting Rights Act
...from Justice Alito’s own jargon, the new guidelines demand Black plaintiffs play with loaded dice. This new guideline in essence requires a plaintiff to show how likely a legislature (assumed...
A Southern Underground Railroad
...Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, September 1856. University of Georgia Press, Manifold edition. "Entangled Borders" revisits the colonial boundary line of the St. Mary's River during Florida's second Spanish period (1783-1821),...
Deep Ellum Blues
...trying to get to something like the newly developed Quadrangle, an elegant new shopping development just a few blocks away in the Oak Lawn district. Perhaps a wrong turn was...
Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology
...a chorus of animals: "'I'm hungry. I want to poop.' But sometimes they start talking in codes." How do we make our way into the coded life of other species?...
Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...the various iterations of Lousiana's colonial slave codes, analyzing in rich, often imaginative detail, the aspirations and anxieties of authorities who attempted to construct and maintain categories of difference within...