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

The US South and the 2008 Election

...it for the first time since the 1870s. In 1930, New York was the most populous state, and California was only the sixth largest. By 1990, California had almost twice...

Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020

Blog Post Camille Goldmon, editorial associate: I'm rereading Patricia Sullivan's Days of Hope: Race and Democracy in the New Deal Era. It's a monograph on liberal New Dealers and their...

Remnants of Flannery

...Chronicles, largely set in-and-around New Orleans; Seth Grahame-Smith's 2010 novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and the 2012 film of the same name, which reimagines slaves as food for vampires and...

Junction City newspaper

...and pitch-forks. In all cases, the dose, if taken, produces wry faces. The strongest republican [sic] journals, like the Atchison Champion, are protesting against the new comers, arguing lustily that...

Belle plaine newspaper

Belle Plaine News. "Shot a Negro." June 8, 1911 "Being arrested for killing a 'nigger' was no doubt a surprise to Mr. Abbott, who, reports have it, has killed other...

Atchison newspaper

Atchison Daily Globe . "The Leavenworth Lynching." January 17, 1901. "Nothing will be done about the Leavenworth lynching. The legislature will adopt resolutions condemning it; the newspapers will refer to...

The Bulletin—November 29, 2012

The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...

Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta

...a Region in My Mind," New Yorker, November 17, 1962, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/11/17/letter-from-a-region-in-my-mind. "[The people back home] didn't care about us no way," Scott said, speaking of whites' reception of black veterans....