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

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...of the Gulf of Mexico, up the coast to Massachusetts, or across the Atlantic to England.4McDaniels III, interview, November 24, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. Naming both domestic and...

Voting Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Persistence of Southern History

...http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Northwest_Austin_Mun_Utility_Dist_No_One_v_Holder_129_S_Ct_2504_1. Like opponents to Section 5, Roberts cited increases in black and Hispanic voter registration and in the number of elected officials as evidence of how much the South has...

Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs

...video, Gainey’s gardens become fields of memory. He participates in seed saving movements that value heirloom plants, both botanically and culturally. He sees plants as part of larger historical narratives,...

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...