Unhappy Trails in the Big Easy: Public Spaces and a Square Called Congo
...the urban South were slaves permitted to perform openly, merging the melodic and polyrhythmic traditions of myriad West African ethnicities in ways that would ever and anon irrigate mainstream music...
Haiti and the Fear of Insurrection: A Review of The Slaveholding Crisis
...Foreign Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016), reviewed in Southern Spaces at https://southernspaces.org/2018/slaveholding-empire-southerners-federal-authority-and-slave-power-abroad. Walker's notion of Texas as a safety valve proved enticing to many northern Democrats and Paulus...
Call for Submissions: Music and the US South
...the US South, 1997–2007." Southern Spaces, June 10, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/dirty-decade-rap-music-and-us-south-1997–2007. Spitzer, Nick. "Creolization as Cultural Continuity and Creativity in Postdiluvian New Orleans and Beyond." Southern Spaces, November 28, 2011. https://southernspaces.org/2011/creolization-cultural-continuity-and-creativity-postdiluvian-new-orleans-and-beyond....
Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...Yazoo-Mississippi floodplain. The eastern boundary is defined by a series of bluffs that begin just below Memphis and run south to Greenwood and thence southwesterly along the Yazoo River, which...
Ireland’s First Sacred Harp Convention: “To Meet To Part No More”
...South, excluding other populations and environs.5Early scholarship on Sacred Harp singing, beginning with George Pullen Jackson’s White Spirituals in the Southern Uplands: The Story of the Fasola Folk, Their Songs,...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...for Southern Equality v. Bryant, the Court allowed the law to go into effect (legally in force) and ensured that Jim Crow by another name again be the law of...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...right of the pier, at Higgs Beach, is the African Cemetery, where some 294 African men, women, and children are buried. Over a thousand Africans were brought illegally (after the...
Opening Spaces: On Tolerance and the Possibility for Love
...in the US South and Hate and Extremism nationwide, visit the Southern Poverty Law Center. In addition, visit Robert T. Gonzalez, "An Interactive Map of Racist, Homophobic and Ableist Tweets...
The Liminal Site
...Topographically if not quite culturally, Birmingham sits where the post-plantation Deep South in which I lived and worked from 1995 to 2010 meets the Appalachian South near which I grew...
Good-Bye to All That?
...September 2013 Dan T. Carter wrote for Southern Spaces about the tumult in North Carolina government. It is a pattern repeated across the South. In the aftermath of the 1968...