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

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...July 28, 2012, 12 Noon  First African Baptist Church, 130 Tyler Street, Monroe, GA 30655 (at Highway 11, Across from Church’s Chicken) Schedule 12 Noon - Church opens for meditation...

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

..."A Virginia mental institution for Black patients, opened after the Civil War, yields a trove of disturbing records," Washington Post, March 29, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/black-asylum-files-reveal-racism/2021/03/26/ebfb2eda-6d78-11eb-9ead-673168d5b874_story.html. The challenges of the psychiatric archive...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...in telling ways. He rightly challenges assumptions that the West was a racial utopia that differed markedly from the racist reality to the East, as "the western frontier did not...