Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border
...transgressors as a "contrabandista community" (2), united in their unwillingness to pay extra for common merchandise to fill the coffers of US and Mexican treasuries. Los charros contrabandistas, Juego de...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...less in these geographical facts than in their process and practice of return and the way their works layer space and time to evoke loss. All photographs play with time....
The War the Slaveholders Won: Indian Removal and the State of Georgia
Presentation About the Speaker Claudio Saunt is Richard B. Russell professor of American History, co-director of the Center for Visual History, and associate director of the Center for Native American Studies at...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...Disability Safer sex, sex positivity, and radicalism Intimacy, love, and affect Memory, loss, mourning, and memorial practices Queer Activism Development, evolution, and futures of gay rights movements Resistance and queer...
Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions
...Karen. "Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility." Southern Spaces, April 15, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/segregations-new-geography-atlanta-metro-region-race-and-declining-prospects-upward-mobility. Solomon, Eric. "Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization...
The Bulletin—May 29, 2012
...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...
Changing Places, Changing Lives
...slaves were in fact other migrants who had established themselves over a number of years" (223). This admission leaves readers wondering what Pargas might have gleaned had he approached his...
A Trumped-Up Dixie: White Southern Republicans and Immigration Reform
...law established as death, and/or the loss of all rights and privileges of US citizenship. As it turned out, almost every white Confederate suffered no denial of life or citizenship...
Rosa’s Log Cabin Quilt [ca 1880]
...a limited number of fabrics, but quiltmakers more often took advantage of the pattern's versatility to incorporate a variety of fabrics. As long as the majority of darker fabrics are...
The Southern Quarterly's Special Issue on Natasha Trethewey
...an in-depth interview with Trethewey, and eight critical essays. Southern Spaces is happy to have supported the Southern Quarterly by granting permission to include a number of images of Trethewey...