Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
...Performance and the Politics of Authenticity (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008),...
Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"
...neighborhoods on the South and West Sides, where the housing and infrastructure started to crack and crumble. Southern migrant Geri Oliver, owner of the celebrated Palm Tavern, talks about how...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...Bertram Wyatt-Brown, The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 205; Richard H. King, A Southern Renaissance: The Cultural Awakening...
Majority of Nation's Public School Students Now Low-Income
...the South's Public Schools." Southern Spaces, April 16, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/crisis-new-majority-low-income-students-souths-public-schools. ———. "The Worst of Times: Children in Extreme Poverty in the South and Nation." Southern Spaces, June 29, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/worst-times-children-extreme-poverty-south-and-nation....
Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom
...From "the vanguard of the southern movement promoting proslavery ideology in the legal realm," Lumpkin and Cobb "legitimated the institution in Georgia so that the laws reflected the racial views...
Mississippi Delta
...century later, writer Richard Ford called the Delta "the South's South." In the 1990s, historian James Cobb referred to it as the "most southern place on earth." Few other regions...
Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920
...Exposition in 1895. The popular attraction was purchased by the Lakewood Park Company and moved to Lakewood Park in southern Fulton County before the start of the 1896 park season."...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
Southern Spaces (https://southernspaces.org/), a peer-reviewed online academic journal, invites proposals for essays, photo essays, original short documentaries, and multimedia projects about the natural and built environments of the U.S. South...
From Raw Cotton to Cloth
...Hall Photography in 2000 and pursues documentary interests in areas of midwifery and southern culture. About the Filmmaker A native of Chester, South Carolina, James L. Hughes III is currently...
US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey at Southern Spaces
...https://southernspaces.org/2005/elegy-native-guards. ———. "Geography." January 11, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/geography. ———. "Jake Adam York interviews Natasha Trethewey." June 25, 2010. https://southernspaces.org/2010/jake-adam-york-interviews-natasha-trethewey. ———. "Theories of Time and Space." June 20, 2005. https://southernspaces.org/2005/theories-time-and-space. Interviews Albergotti,...