Bodies and Souls
...feel the challenges of life and complexity of relationships in their own way. In 2006, Mississippi had one of the lowest number of physicians per capita in the nation (177...
Race and Difference in the "Other America": A Review of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot
...long career, she never "took her hand off the plow" of social justice, and once her course was set, she did not look back. Interviews with a number of activists...
Birmingham, Alabama images
...1963-- shortly before morning services were to begin--the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, killing four African American girls. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton...
Excerpt from James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
...is our concept of Christianity: and this raging plague has the power to destroy every human relationship. I once took a short trip with Medgar Evers to the backwoods of...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
Introduction The catfish didn't miss the current. They'd never known it. They lapped the pond all day like pace cars. At feeding time, they thrashed for their share of pellets....
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...Intersections / Southern Spaces." In a 2013 short manifesto, "Stomp for the Shadows," filmmaker Pratibha Parmar defines the word QUEER via an acronym: Queer, Unspoken, Embolden, Erased, Reclaimed.1Pratibha Parmar, "Stomp...
The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border
...Jim Crow laws and practices. Despite these obstacles, Nixon graduated from Wiley College in Texas in 1902 and from Meharry Medical College in Tennessee in 1906. Shortly after establishing his...
Authorship in Africana Studies
...At the moment of challenge, humanistic studies are imagined to exist not so much as a complex of ideologies, discourses, and institutions with an identifiable and relatively short history, but...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...Gulf Coast.6Similarly, some authors depict the swampy coast as harboring a terrible evil. For instance, H.P. Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu," first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales...
Submission Process
...revision and copyedits. Southern Spaces generally has a fairly short turnaround time—depending on the amount of revision necessary, we can generally publish articles in three to six months from the...