Seeds of Rebellion in Plantation Fiction: Victor Séjour's "The Mulatto"
...American South. His numerous essays and reviews appear in such journals as the Southern Literary Journal, Southern Quarterly, Mississippi Quarterly, American Literature, Southern Studies, Studies in American Humor, American Quarterly,...
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...
A Conversation with Digital Historians
...have two grindstones. One involves interfacing with a machine in ways that are sometimes difficult and tedious, much like archival work. Sometimes we are wrestling with code and how to...
Walking into History: The Beginning of School Desegregation in Nashville
...across the South. In the spring of 1956, nineteen of the twenty-two southern members of the US Senate (excepting only Lyndon Johnson of Texas and Tennessee's Estes Kefauver and Albert...
The US South in Global Contexts
Part 2: Dr. Marshall Eakin "Origins of the Old South" Part 3: Dr. Natalie Ring "Encountering the Problem South in the Late Nineteenth Century" Part 4: Dr. Tara McPherson "Wal-Mart...
"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...
Rereading Local Color: Bill Hardwig's Upon Provincialism
...between postwar travel writing about the South and southern local color fiction, noting that both genres "generally presented the region as an object for analysis, a confounding book of riddles,...
Vivir en las Fronteras: Inmigrantes Maya de Guatemala en el Sur de los Estados Unidos
...Latin American Immigration to Atlanta,” Southern Spaces, May 19, 2006, https://southernspaces.org/2006/global-lives-local-struggles-latin-american-immigrants-atlanta; Odem and Lacy, Latino Immigration and the Transformation of the U.S. South. return to top Una Segunda Ola de...
Interstate Road Project, Single-State History: Tammy Ingram's Look at the Dixie Highway
...Indianapolis automotive headlights manufacturer Carl Fisher, who had plowed his fortune into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and later into promoting long-distance roads, including the earlier Lincoln Highway. The Dixie Highway—one...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...16, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/back-future-mapping-workers-across-global-south. Hill, Sarah H. "Cherokee Removal Scenes: Elijay, Georgia, 1838." Southern Spaces, August 23, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838. Kirpalani, Neeta and Emily Jackson. "Birth Right." Southern Spaces, January 12, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/birth-right...