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

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...and power and has affected efforts to alleviate racial and class inequality for generations. What more, I sometimes wonder, is there to say? Among the many contributions of Karl Hagstrom...

The State House Aflame 1833

...different. It's twelve noon, and the assembly's just adjourned; the State House is aflame, and water won't reach the heights a slave can. Sam's a bondsman. The roof, the roof,...

Sams Gap, North Carolina

...I have a different perspective because I know that those people lost a lot when that road went through there.  Those people that owned that property lost a lot and...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...York. He is author of Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual (New York: NYU Press, 2007), Black Gay Men (New York: NYU Press, 2001), and...

Mapping Souths

...not any one smile," he wrote, "to think of the Ohio River and the Potomac being such grand national barriers as must . . . constitute of necessity the nations...

Whiskey and Geography

...can credit the Ulster immigrants for helping introduce the tradition to America. Through their influence, whiskey making became commonplace everywhere in the new colony, particularly on the frontier. Frenchman Marquis...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...Stuckey, age 43, blind Negro preacher"). Both a playlist of sorts and an archival testimony to this sister's exhaustive performative dynamism, her mad flow, and her tireless and meticulous attention...

"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh

...any other public leaders. Brian Howard, "Religion in Africa: Tolerance and Trust in Leaders are High, but Many Would Allow Regulation of Religious Speech," Afrobarometer Dispatch no. 339 (2020), https://afrobarometer.org/sites/default/files/publications/Policy%20papers/ab_r7_dispatchno339_pap12_religion_in_africa.pdf....