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

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...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...newer version of the Soundscriber Hurston would have used, New York, 1944. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Image in Public Domain. Bottom, Zora Neale Hurston with Rochelle French and Gabriel Brown,...

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

...Coke is an award-winning poet and author of Huron, Cherokee, French-Canadian and Portuguese ancestry. Her poetry ranges from North Carolina where she worked in tobacco fields, to California where she worked...