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

The Liminal Site

...to sit, the most liminal place in the whole liminal site. My physical pleasure—visual, auditory, and tactile—in the urban space is inseparable from my pleasure in the place from which...

Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter

...2017, www.npr.org/2017/03/08/515814287/heres-whats -become-of-a-historic-all-black-town-in-the-mississippi-delta. Businesses and bank of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, ca. 1912–1920. Photograph by Milton McFarland Painter, Sr. Image is in the public domain. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of...

Georgia Slavery, Georgia Freedom

...History of the United States (Sheldon & Co, 1881), p. 19. Image uploaded by Flickr user Internet Archive Book Images. Image is in public domain. In the second half of Cultivating Race,...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...has a photograph of a rubbing of the same stone. It leans against a tree and is partly illuminated by sunlight. Text carved in relief is nearly invisible in this...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...conservationists were also eugenicists. White supremacy and nativism—hostility toward immigrants—were integral to the way many early conservationists understood their work. These ideas infused (and continue to infuse) debates about overpopulation,...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...Freedom Struggle is the latest installment in the growing shelf of books about the Till murder and its aftermath. (Truth in reviewing: I'm at work on a book about Till...

Reckoning with Enslavement

Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...