When the Border Crossed Me
...agriculture. The borderlands overtook me personally and professionally. I cannot escape their meaning—not just down at the southern line below the United States, but the little borders everywhere in our...
Naming Each Place
...learning to love his hometown, gay black identity, the visibility of southern poets, and autobiography in poetry. Part 2: Trethewey and Brown discuss the place of region in writing and the...
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...
"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...
Ethnic Cleansing and the Trail of Tears: Cherokee Pasts, Places, and Identities
...the Haunted South," The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies, eds. Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2017), 238–62. Seven Cherokee chief delegates accompanying...
The Bulletin—May 8, 2013
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
The Web of Cis-Atlantic History: A Review of Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World
...antebellum Deep South during the cotton boom of the 1820s. The book's contributors argue that Louisiana's early history can only be understood by adopting an Atlantic perspective—one that considers its...