Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...never to see them again, or lack legal documents so that parents are separated from their American-born children. "I looked all around, and I saw I was alone," writes an...
Rethinking the Geography of Lynching
...have found a dearth of successful public black protests in the South, not because they have not looked for them, but because the repercussions for African Americans who acted openly...
Excerpt from Saints at the River
...finds a place above a falls where the water looks shallow and slow. The river is a boundary between South Carolina and Georgia, and she wants to wade into the...
Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)
Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...
When the Border Crossed Me
...my piece of land more profitable. The disparity began to weigh on me. Thirty years later, I look back to the day the border first crossed me. That day I...
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy
Southern Memory, Southern Monuments, and the Subversive Black Mammy Question and Answer Wallace-Sanders responds to questions about the photographs she uses, the proposed Mammy Memorial Institute, the political responses...
Accidents Happen with Clockwork Regularity
...noon in the distance as you stoop for a closer look, drawn by the insect's metallic sheen. And then you see that your killing step would have been redundant. Something...
Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...looks down as her arms entwine with her sisters’ on either side. Just below her sister’s hand, Edith’s hand grasps the skirt of the nightgown she is wearing and pulls...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...by black and white laborers created thin strands of sympathy across racial lines, more often white laborers looked for ways to exploit these differences to some meager advantage, whether it...
"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"
...conference in the Southeast. As I read her newest poems, once again I find her taking us into a new place, demanding that we look with unflinching eyes, that we...