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

Chattanooga, Tennessee images

Chattanooga, Tennessee: Inflatable Figures, Rock City, Lookout Mountain Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Woman on Cell Phone and Construction Site...

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...Greenwich Village, New York, New York. Originally published in David Carter's Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution (St. Martin's Press, 2004). Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Map is in the...

From A Field Guide to Etowah County

...in his head and neck, copies of the protest scattered and streaking in the April dew. It was September, honeysuckle in full perfume, the woods a riot of grackles and...

Self-Portrait at a Bend in the Road

...dipper for anyone who coughed. They taunted her, her neighbors, the store owner and the riot, even the bus driver safe within the fold, but she carried on, and they...

Anniversary

...riots where the Greyhound station's been made a museum of itself, what was reflected now etched on the windows, the froth of clubs and chains, even rakes, over the Freedom...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

Presentation Part One Black women who influenced Johnson's thinking about literature, folklore, the arts, and "quare theory" while growing up in western North Carolina and when attending UNC–Chapel Hill (5:27)....

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...racism, the vulnerability of blacks, and the brutality of the racial order" (1). He deploys a more capacious approach, encompassing sensational violence (lynchings, race riots, mobbing, killing-by-police, and homicides), threatened...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...essay on race riots in Springfield, Ohio, Jack S. Blocker points out that from the perspective of African Americans, life was no less dangerous outside the South, since violence tended...

Substantiation

...Till watches, enwreathes their broods. Milam wakes up early each morning when the riot in the pear trees begins, starlings wolf-whistling for food, or just repeating what they've heard. One...

When the Border Crossed Me

...travelogue, an ethnography, history, and, as one reviewer put it, a jeremiad about the border. I chronicled every mile of it from the mouth of the Rio Grande in Texas...