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

The Bulletin—October 2, 2012

...interviewing historians of the integration of the University of Mississippi, James Meredith and his relatives, and students currently enrolled at the university. Kitty Dumas, an African American alumna of the...

The Civil War and Emancipation 150 Years On

...a sensitivity to African Americans unimaginable at the time of the centennial of the war. On the other hand, polls reveal that nearly half the people in the nation believe...

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

Review An odd thing has happened on the way to the antebellum American past. Capitalism reigns; cotton is king; and work and workers are no longer studied together. Instead, slaves...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...she is a member, for two official markers near Anniston: one at the site of the 1961 bus burning and one where African American foundry worker Willie Brewster was gunned...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam (Crown, 2001), Callaloo, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora (Warner/Aspect, 2000), Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts...

Brushes with War

...One presents a white, all-male military group portrait, while the other features a lone enslaved African American woman. One shows distinct Rebel prisoners front-and-center, in a balanced standoff with a...