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...
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....
Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...in Mexico displays the predictable symptoms of previous drug wars from Southeast Asia to Colombia, including law enforcement's preoccupation with "kingpins," a strong government preference for criminal justice and military...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...Story of Emmett Till (Mound Bayou: Mississippi Regional Council of Negro Leadership, 1956). Mound Bayou continues to exist today, though it grapples with the numerous contemporary challenges facing rural southern...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...is another Mississippi Delta native. Today he works as a lawyer in Atlanta. Caffery, educated at the San Francisco Art Institute, is from southwest Louisiana’s Bayou country and returned home...
A Real American Horror Story: On Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave
...attitudes that survived the Civil War and Reconstruction to terrorize African Americans in the US South deep into the twentieth century. To this day, we hear the echoes of this...
Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida
...to the physical archives in Tallhassee, Florida. University of South Florida Digital Collections http://digital.lib.usf.edu/ By virtue of close proximity, the University of South Florida has, since its founding in 1956,...
Art, Diaspora, and Identity: The John Biggers Papers
...and places in the US South. These posts investigate the geographical, historical, and cultural study of real and imagined southern spaces through the lens of archival sources and materials and...