Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History
...monumental impact on the voting rights of African Americans and on the nation's faith in its democratic promise. Since 1965 Section 5 has required the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,...
Family Forestry in Twiggs County, Georgia / Live in Macon at the Douglass Theatre
...Douglass Theatre Macon native Charles Henry Douglass, an African American entrepreneur, opened the Douglass Theatre in Macon in 1912 to serve Macon's African American community. The original theater was located...
The Bulletin—January 29, 2013
...is evenly split 20–20 between Democrats and Republicans, Marsh's absence allowed Republicans to pass the measure with a 20-19 majority. Marsh called the move "shameful." In a statement released on...
Readership Reports and the Benefits of Open Access Publishing
...access journal, Southern Spaces is committed to supporting our authors in communicating the value of their publications to tenure and promotion committees. Members of such committees may not have experience...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...they tell a story central to Arlington and mirror an even larger story of black Americans who lived through the transitions from slavery to segregation. Here rest roughly 3,800 people...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
...the shining example of Henry Grady's New South ideology — seeking industrialization through northern capital and promising racial justice through segregation. But in spite of the city's aggressive promotion of...
Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination
...Such efforts to oppose USDA discrimination have been buried, and constitute an invisible residue of the civil rights movement. The history of African American farmers created a remarkable trajectory. African...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...
The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie
...frame and explored violence directed against racial and ethnic groups other than African Americans.2See William D. Carrigan and Christopher Waldrep, eds., Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective (Charlottesville:...
Catastrophe and Hope: Martyn Bone’s The Writings of Jesmyn Ward
...analyses, a strategy that can leave out valuable existing scholarship—especially on literary themes he highlights in diasporic and postcolonial criticism. For instance, Robin Brooks’ Class Interruptions: Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women’s Fiction (2022) traces how contemporary diasporic African, Caribbean, and African...