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

Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980

..."Review: 'Cruising' maps the cultural history of L.A.'s hookup spots," Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-review-cruising-alex-espinoza-gay-history-20190703-story.htm. In short, cruising persists as a culturally relevant practice in the United States...

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...

Starlit Screens: Preserving Place and Public at Drive-In Theaters

...theater," Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive-in_theater; Douglas Gomery, Shared Pleasures: A History of Movie Presentation in the United States (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992), 91. William Robert Bruce Lonnee, "Preserving the American...