Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
Introduction In 2003, Raymond Mohl’s description of the “latinization” of the late twentieth century US South (the “Nuevo New South”) helped set the stage for an expanding body of cross-disciplinary...
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office
...1849. Vague and clumsy references to letters in code and cyphers in his correspondence directed to Barrett made his situation look damning. One newspaper from North Carolina noted that if it...
Coop Co-Op: Agrarian Ideals, City Codes, and the Backyard Chicken Movement
...a fully-fledged movement since we started in 2004. News of our endeavor spread quickly as we hammered, stapled, and stretched chicken wire on our new coop, most of which we...
Geographies of Hope and Despair: Atlanta's African American, Latino, and White Day Laborers
Introduction I left Guatemala May 28. I had problems crossing into Mexico from Guatemala. Mexican officials threw me back eight times but I kept trying. They tried to get me...
Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19
Call for Submissions Southern Spaces invites scholars, critics, writers, health care providers, public health practitioners, activists, media producers, community organizers, and patients to submit 1,000-word blog posts, as well as...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Mexican government, ranging from the Mexican state's abolishment of slavery in 1829 to its prohibition of new Anglo settlers in 1830.4The newly independent Mexican government began as the First Empire...
Stand & Witness: Art in the Time of COVID-19
...as the “forgotten pandemic,” COVID-19 took place in an era of global connection and social media, allowing for new audiences and shared artistic production. While scientists worked to understand the...
All Roads Led from Rome: Facing the History of Cherokee Expulsion
...Banner, August 17, 1832, p. 3. Athens Historic Newspapers Archive, Digital Library of Georgia. The drums turned from late October 1832 through April 1833. Publications broadcast the names, counties, and lot...
Music and Mobility on the Streets of New Orleans: A Review of Roll with It
...New Orleans artist Willie Birch, Sakakeeny transports readers to the second line and beyond, to the debates surrounding the production of brass music today. Sakakeeny's ongoing relationships with New Orleans's cultural...
Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation
...and a key railroad supply line, amounted to a major defensive victory for the Union forces.1Steven E. Woodworth, Nothing But Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861–1865 (New York: Alfred...