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...
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...in Georgia, which is available to watch for free. https://vimeo.com/470999167 Trailer for Suppressed: The Fight to Vote, July 23, 2019. Trailer by Brave New Films. Courtesy of Brave New Films....
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...recently earning San Antonio the title of fastest growing city in the United States, population growth in recent decades pales in comparison to the boom between 1940 and 1960, when...
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...
Editors
...Tech Connie Eble, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Rebecca Edwards, Vassar College Michael Elliott, Emory University Beth English, Princeton University Keona Ervin, University of Missouri David Estes, Loyola University-New Orleans...
Packin' Four Corner Nabs
...low, only to me, “Better get them dues paid. Next check, okeh?” I nod, duck out the lot hitch a semi home down highway 50 smellin’ like crackers and peanut...
Artist Repertoire Index
This list represents the songs George Mitchell recorded in the Lower Chattahoochee region between 1969 and 1982. Bailey, Golden (1976) The Buck The Dog John Henry Sally Got the...
Excerpt from Eudora Welty's "Where is the Voice Coming From?" (1963)
...once, like a man under bad claws, and like just blood could weigh a ton he walked with it on his back to a better light. Didn't get no further...
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...of the 1920s and later, often met with sharp and widespread disapproval in border societies (22, 41, 113–114). There are critical distinctions, as Díaz notes, between amateur smuggling and professional...
Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
Southern Spaces invites essays, photo essays, video productions, and digital projects which explore the relationships between social justice and real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their...