Southern Spaces Recommends
...there's "Jesus is on the Mainline" by Boyd Rivers. Rivers was one of rawest and most powerful gospel blues artists to come out of Mississippi. In 1978 he was first...
Local Color
...vernacular vocabularies, and it was linked in the national mind with a unique plantation economic base that influenced its secular traditions as well as its religious habits. But most importantly,...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
...plot conflict involving exaggerated, comic collisions of characters based on class and education, civilization vs. barbarity. His narrator is the southern aristocrat. When one of his folk characters swears, the...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...the punitive carceral system, and the many ongoing injustices that Black people experience in the US and across the globe. We understand, as James Baldwin writes, that under white supremacy...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...dozens of bills to condemn and frustrate school desegregation. The overall strategy of massive resistance was based on two basic tactics. One was placing pupils in public schools according to...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...Land We Live in, the Land We Left: Virginia’s People,” an exhibition at the Library of Virginia in downtown Richmond, curated by Lisa Goff and coordinated by Barbara Batson, draws...
Brown, Black, and White in Texas
...purposes" (200). "The whiteness strategy had come back to haunt Mexican Americans" (200). Despite its strengths, Fighting Their Own Battles does suffer from several weaknesses. Behnken does not adequately describe...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...2017, www.npr.org/2017/03/08/515814287/heres-whats -become-of-a-historic-all-black-town-in-the-mississippi-delta. Businesses and bank of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, ca. 1912–1920. Photograph by Milton McFarland Painter, Sr. Image is in the public domain. Courtesy of the Mississippi Department of...
Reckoning with Enslavement
...trace their lineage to White Marsh, one of the Jesuit-owned plantations located in Prince George's County, Maryland. Census of people to be sold, Maryland, 1838. This is the original list...
Undoing the Voting Rights Act
...members who comprise the Court's conservative wing on controversies of race, Justice Alito upholds Arizona law that invalidates a voter's entire ballot if it is cast in the wrong precinct...