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

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...rights struggles occurred simultaneously. Despite repeated calls for cooperation and a number of examples of interethnic alliances, African Americans and Mexican Americans ultimately 'fought their own battles'" (2). Behnken examines...

Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta

...a Region in My Mind," New Yorker, November 17, 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind. "[The people back home] didn't care about us no way," Scott said, speaking of whites' reception of black veterans....

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....

The Bulletin—March 20, 2013

...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...bridge at Sams Gap, Sams Gap, NC, 2001. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. NCDOT supervisors discussing work on the new Visitor Center, Sams Gap, NC, 2003. Photo courtesy of Rob...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...photography's historical role in the construction of African American identity. As a relatively new mechanical medium, training in early photography was not restricted by racially limited access to academic fine...