A Sleight of History: University of Alabama's Foster Auditorium
...sentences to the stand at the schoolhouse door events of 1963. Desegregation was a contentious issue in other schools in the US South, and each school has approached commemoration in...
An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...New County Railroad and Distance Map of Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina" [c. 1875] Detail from South Carolina Map. G.W. & C.B. Colton & Co. [c. 1892] Detail from "South...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...sent over 750,000 slaves from the Upper South to the Deep South between 1830 and 1860.5Ira Berlin, Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003),...
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...and interested readers. Southern Spaces publishes work in a variety of humanities and social science disciplines that represents and analyzes many souths and southern regions, offers critical scrutiny of any...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...in the longstanding history of violence against Black people—we at Southern Spaces are outraged. Along with the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, we stand in solidarity with those protesting police...
En ningún [pero todo] lugar del mundo: Historia y sexualidad cubana en el teatro de Abel González Melo
Introducción El dramaturgo Abel González Melo nació en 1980 en La Habana, Cuba, mismo año en que el Exodo del Mariel vio a aproximadamente 125,000 personas huir de su país, un evento que dramatiza...
COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance
...and Global South is a collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications examining the relationship between public health and specific geographies—both real and imagined—in and across the US and Global South. These essays...
End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective
...the US and Global South is a collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia publications examining the relationship between public health and specific geographies—both real and imagined—in and across the US and Global South....
Encountering COVID
Michelle Fishburne and her dog Buddy outside of their RV. White Sands National Park, New Mexico. February 2021. Photograph courtesy of author. Southern Spaces: Oh, here's Michelle now. Are you...
Recording the Places of New Orleans Hip-hop through the NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive
NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive launch party poster, Holly Hobbs, 2014. The NOLA Hip-hop and Bounce Archive, the first university-affiliated southern rap archive in the Deep South, is now online....