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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

...success that the black freedom struggle enjoyed in the 1960s and that Mexican Americans coveted" (10). Nevertheless, blacks and Mexican Americans forged stronger alliances during this period—even if sustained solidarity...

Writing Appalachia

...us to leave out important writings about the region by authors not born here, such as William Bartram, George Washington Harris, Mary Noailles Murfree, Horace Kephart, and others. It could...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), winner of The Errol Hill Award for Outstanding Scholarship on African American Performance from the American Society of Theatre Research; Jeff...

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...

Seneca Quarry

...couldn't pay back. The quarry's bankruptcy in 1876 helped bring down the Freedman's Bank, wiping out the savings of some 400,000 freed slaves and exacerbating poverty among African Americans for...

The Carolina Piedmont

...a countryside filled with freed blacks, and appeals to "fight like men for our firesides." Bennett Place, Durham County, N.C. Because Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered to General William...