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

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...is the origin of the Callaloo Conference. Dancing in the Streets, collage montage on museum board by Jean Lacy, 1976. Photograph by the Tyler Museum of Art. Back cover art...

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....

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

...New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She has published several books of poems, including: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American...

Editorial Style Guide

...does not capitalize "civil rights movement." Identifiers related to race, cultural identity, or ethnicity: Southern Spaces capitalizes racial and ethnic identifiers (e.g. Latinx, Asian American, Native American, African American); racial...

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

...at all.”12David Nevin and Robert E. Bills, The Schools that Fear Built: Segregationist Academies in the South (Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1976), 11. Private and Public: Vastly Disparate Students White...

The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow

...to be impoverished, illiterate, and landless."2Wilma A. Dunaway, The First American Frontier: Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700–1860 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 21. Steven Stoll's...