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

A Green Democratic Revolution

...by the economic and administrative power apparatus."1André Gorz, Ecologica (Paris: Galilée, 2008), 48. A turning point was reached fifty years ago. In 1972, the Club of Rome published the report...

The Vanished World of the New Orleans Longshoreman

...new technology and implemented sweeping infrastructure improvements, the Port of New Orleans, hobbled by a dock board populated by political appointees who possessed no useful knowledge of the shipping industry,...

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

...Henry Wellge & Co. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3974s.pm000090/ Through violence, appeals to white supremacy, and massive voter fraud, the Black Belt's oligarchs defeated...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...a western one), but sometimes, more appropriately, as a category of its own. Mace's sectional differences are significant, but perhaps overblown. After all, few newspapers sent reporters to Mississippi. Most...

Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment

...Take Highway 11 North all the way to Monroe. (Follow the instructions as outlined above.) Note: If you pass Church’s Chicken you have gone too far. Church Telephone Number 770-267-5819...