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

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...border state, Kentucky had relatively high rates of racial violence, especially in western and central Kentucky, where African Americans were more highly concentrated than in the eastern counties, and where...

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.

...understand herself and to survive (7:28). Question and Answer Session About the Speakers E. Patrick Johnson is a scholar, artist, and the Carlos Montezuma Professor of African American Studies and...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...the story," the African American artist Kara Walker has said about her art. "You keep creating a monster that swallows you." In a mid-career retrospective currently on tour, Walker's subject...

Sea Changes in Personhood

...face has African features and closed eyes. It is covered by coral and sea moss and barnacles that create a visual illusion of alert, open eyes. The image embodies the...

Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces

...more collections forthcoming as the journal continues to innovate in critical regional studies, digital scholarship, and open access publishing. Educational resources currently available include: African American Art and Aesthetic Experiences...

Tuskegee Airmen: Brett Gadsden Interviews J. Todd Moye

...in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986 (2003). About Brett Gadsden Brett Gadsden is assistant professor of African American Studies at Emory University. He received his PhD in history from Northwestern University....