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

The Change

...   and sharecroppers. Away, so that I could always   hold this concise image of before that    time    and it floods    my memory.   Published in Off...

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...

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...

Writing Appalachia

...of Appalachian literature that is comprehensive, reflects contemporary ideas about authorship and Appalachia, and brings readers well into the twenty-first century. That is what this book attempts to do. In...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

...rethink what activism means. "Pleasure activism," writes brown, "is about learning what it means to be satisfiable, to generate, from within and from between us, an abundance from which we...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...incapacitating depression that left her unable to "write, read, or do anything at all for a period." Having assured her "Boss" in that letter that when she does "come out...

Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising

...buildings with hand-stenciled and freehand advertising for local businesses. Such work suggests that small-business advertising can be a collective endeavor, relying on neighborhood talent and artistic vision. About the Photographer...

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Copyright for contributions published in Southern Spaces is retained by the authors, with publication rights granted to the journal. Content is free to users. Any reproduction of original content from Southern Spaces must a) seek...