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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

Review "Let the Negro fight his own battles," declared Felix Tijerina, a Mexican American civil rights activist in Texas and the national president of the League of United Latin American...

Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter

...and landscape architect based in San Antonio, Texas, partnered with Eatonville to generate community development guidelines drawing inspiration from Hurston's literary descriptions of the community's character. Furthermore, Fly partnered with...

Transcript: Interview with Jim Bunkley

...sang it this way this time, you got to sing it the same way the next time. Mitchell: Well not all the time. Jim Bunkley: Well, just whichever way you...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

...to get back to making pictures. I had been washing my hands incessantly as I drove from North Carolina to Mississippi, always keeping sanitizer close, trying to puzzle out how...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...Supreme Court called for re-argument of Dred Scott v. Sanford, leading to the majority opinion in March 1857, authored by Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, holding that persons of African...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...Print by Dawoud Bey (American, born 1953). San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Accessions Committee Fund purchase. Image © Dawoud Bey. In the almost 160 years since the legal dissolution...