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

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...

The Change

FOR THE SHARECROPPER I LEFT BEHIND IN '79 Thirteen years ago,   before bulk barns and fifth gear diesel tractors, we rode royal blue tractors with tool boxes big enough  ...

New Orleans, Louisiana images

New Orleans, Louisiana: Intersection of St. Louis and Royal, French Quarter Signs of the tourist trade are evident in the French Quarter, even in the early morning hours. College Boys,...

Winslow Homer and the American Civil War

Presentation Part 2: Wood details the history of Winslow’s painting, “Near Andersonville.” Part 3: Wood explains Homer’s possible motivations for painting “Near Andersonville Part 4: Examining soldiers in the painting, Wood offers a...

Single Centers of Creation?

Essay Detail from Nancy Lowe, Source, Species Icons exhibit, Schatten Gallery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, 2009. Introduction In this sampling from ORIGIN, a collaborative exhibition celebrating the 150th anniversary of...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...or other federal benefits, and county USDA offices purposely squeezed black farmers out of farming. Paradoxically, the flight of African Americans from the land coincided with the civil rights movement,...

Deep Ellum Blues

...Dallas onwards, which treated Deep Ellum as "Harlem in Miniature," "Deep Elem Blues" has served as the emblematic song of the blues experience in Dallas (though it shares a number...