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

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...and women skillfully exploited white self-righteousness and shrewdly played on fears that racist violence would undermine the state's reputation. African Americans cultivated their own version of the Free State Legend,...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...limiting human potential. So, yes, it seemed right to "appropriate the name and conventions of Western opera … while hybridizing them with other forms of musical theater, such as Caribbean carnival...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Tuesday, June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled five–four to strike down section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965....

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...16, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/back-future-mapping-workers-across-global-south.  Hill, Sarah H. "Cherokee Removal Scenes: Elijay, Georgia, 1838." Southern Spaces, August 23, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838.   Kirpalani, Neeta and Emily Jackson. "Birth Right." Southern Spaces, January 12, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/birth-right...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...eyes, rebound right, twenty count more, they semi-circle in memory rings--I hear my dad’s voice advising me ‘bout              fightin’ white girls “Circle ‘em they’re easier to pick off” Sadie...