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

Cajun South Louisiana

...farmers, grew sugar on farms east of the Atchafalaya River. Lafayette Parish was the center of a cotton culture in the 1850s, with prairie counties west of there dominated by...

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...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...cuts off the leg of a slave boy, and a slave woman sucks the cut-off leg. A Confederate soldier prepares for battle by sucking a slave woman's breast. A slave...

Residues of Border Control

...an alien in Arizona without carrying registration documents and requires law enforcement officials to determine a person's immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" that the person is an "illegal...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...Registration and Voting, Washington, DC, 1963, 13–14, 65. Most states had few polling places in minority and poor communities. Most southern states had voting rolls with more dead white people...

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...