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Southern Spaces

A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

Rhonda Y. Williams

The Colonialist's Gaze

McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America

Craig Womack, Barbara Creel, et al.

Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire

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Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed’s The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

Steve Suitts

Atlanta, Georgia

Reed's book illuminates how he and others experienced several different "Souths," where culture, class, ideology, and the laws emerging from segregation varied by geography in practice and form.

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Daniel A. Pollock

Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed’s The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

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Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"

Mark Auslander and Avis E. Williams

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Stephanie Rountree

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Mary E. Frederickson

1108 Dynamite Hill

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"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

Gregory Samantha Rosenthal

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

Elliott J. Gorn

Still Digging Our Own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease

Barbara Ellen Smith

Nowhere [yet Everywhere] in the World: Cuban History and Sexuality in the Dramas of Abel González Melo

Bridgette W. Gunnels and Abel González Melo

En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo

Bridgette W. Gunnels and Abel González Melo

Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation

Daniel A. Pollock

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter

McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America

Craig Womack, Barbara Creel, et al.

Reckoning with Enslavement

William G. Thomas III