Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
...the US and Global South, edited by Dr. Mary E. Frederickson. Submit all inquiries and materials to Southern Spaces managing editor Mary Ann Robertson at seditor@emory.edu. See the Southern Spaces...
An Excerpt from The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon
...It excludes the many immigrant groups that have made the South their home over the generations—Chinese, Lebanese, Italians, and more recently, Indians, Vietnamese, Africans, Hispanics. It ignores queer southern communities...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...his use of "South" and "Southeast" as descriptors is misplaced. These issues aside, Manganiello has produced a thought-provoking history of energy and water politics in Southern Water, Southern Power. He...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...York Times, March 25, 2011, A1, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/us/25south.html; Yen, "In a Reversal, More Blacks Moving Back to South." There are now ten times as many black Southerners who were born in...
Cajun South Louisiana
...the prairie districts. South Louisiana joined other parts of the South in embracing slavery and southern rights in the 1850s. The Civil War brought increased outside influence in the bayous...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...Baptist Indian Church, Erected about 1870. "BAPTIST INDIAN CHURCH: THLEWARLE MEKKO SAPKV COKO" {Rewahle Mekusvpkv Cuko} By Sharon A. Fife* Originally published in The Chronicles of Oklahoma, 48:4 (Winter 1970/1971);...
Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South
...cost of housing and safer neighborhoods that the South seemed to offer.12Mary Odem, “Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigration to Atlanta,” Southern Spaces, May 19, 2006, https://southernspaces.org/2006/global-lives-local-struggles-latin-american-immigrants-atlanta; Odem and...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...faded, which in its time expressed and exerted influence on Civil War memories north and south of the Mason Dixon line and served as a technological, thematic, and commercial forerunner...
Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...the South and slavery in national politics—not for distributing power within the South's own all-white male politics. At the time of the Constitution's drafting, no southern state government permitted slaveholding...
The Pursuit of Health: Colonialism and Hookworm Eradication in Puerto Rico
...public health history.6On hookworm eradication in the US South, see John Ettling, The Germ of Laziness: Rockefeller Philanthropy and Public Health in the New South (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,...