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

Reckoning with Enslavement

...The project released its database of descendants in May 2019 with American Ancestors by the New England Historic Genealogical Society (see the GU272 Descendants, 1785–2000 database, www.americanancestors.org/search/databasesearch/2756/gu272-descendants-1785-2000). Third, historian Sharon...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...generation of academics have named it the southern imaginary—runs deep in American culture. We know that it defines, ensnares, and empowers whites and blacks. We know it has tremendous flexibility...

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...the American Negro Academy, an association of African American "men of science, letters and art or those distinguished in other walks of life" was founded in Washington, DC. It's purpose...

Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters

...before."20Jenny Jones, author, Pete Marovich, photographer. "Hull's Drive-In: Preserving a Piece of Americana." American Journal, Issue 9. http://hullsdrivein.com/docs/press/PDF/AmericanJournal.pdf A commercial buyer never came. Instead in June 1999, Eric and Elise...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...service "plus one" account of black subjectivity in which the most traditional ideas of Universalism, Cosmopolitanism, and western Modernity are presumably broadened and deepened through the indication that some representative...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...interpenetration of locality and racial consciousness in American poetry between Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and Barack Obama's inauguration. Tentatively titled "The Ditch is Nearer: Race, Place, and American Poetry," the project will treat...