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

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...

The Black Belt

...slaves were most profitable, and consequently they were taken there in the largest numbers. Later, and especially since the war, the term seems to be used wholly in a political...