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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...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...to Mississippi include California, Connecticut, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, and Washington. Additionally, both Washington, DC, and select counties in Wisconsin, Ohio, Maryland, and Oregon issued travel bans. Cities including Baltimore,...

Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction

...within the nation. North/South Lights in Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 10, 2014. Photograph courtesy of Flickr user Travis Wise. Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0....

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...

Mapping Souths

...not any one smile," he wrote, "to think of the Ohio River and the Potomac being such grand national barriers as must . . . constitute of necessity the nations...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...clergy to assert that many transplanted and home-grown white evangelicals in northern states such as Illinois and Ohio, exhibited "a great sympathy for the resistant and recalcitrant [white] Christians in...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...were built for middle class Americans. See Annie S. Barnes, The Black Middle Class Family: A Study of Black Subsociety, Neighborhood, and Home in Interaction (Lima, Ohio: Wyndham Hall Press,...