Retelling Virginia's Migration History
Review Photographer unknown, Unidentified miners from southwest Virginia, 1930s. Courtesy of the Library of Virginia. Amid the current wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, numerous US cities and states are reexamining their...
The Bulletin—February 11, 2013
...to wait disproportionately longer to vote in the 2012 Presidential election than people from other areas. Black and Hispanic voters, Democrats and Independents, and those living in cities were three other...
"The Ohio River Was Not the River Jordan": A Review of Matthew Salafia's Slavery's Borderland
...opportunities for the African American work force, both slave and free, which became enmeshed into a single, somewhat fluid system that operated on both sides of the river. Port cities,...
Call for Submissions: Landscapes and Ecologies of the U.S. South Proposals due: January 31, 2011
...Appalachia Peter West, Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839-1869 David Wharton, Constructed Views: New Meets Old in Mid-South Cities Complete list of Environmental Studies pieces: https://southernspaces.org/category/tags/environmental-studies...
Cultural Life in a "Chocolate City": A Review of Natalie Hopkinson's Go-Go Live
...with many US cities beginning in the late 1960s. Following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the segregation-era black enclave around U Street was left gutted by rioters, a...
Race & Gender in the Latinx South: A Review of Cecilia Márquez’s Making the Latino South & Sarah McNamara’s Ybor City
...The conversation illuminated Chicana historian Vicki Ruiz’s argument that “region is intricately tied to Latina identity.” With attention to geographic and temporal specificities, Márquez’s Making the Latino South and McNamara’s...
Jackson, Mississippi images
...business district. Mississippi State Fair Held annually in October, the Mississippi State Fair draws visitors from throughout the South. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007 David Wharton and Southern Spaces...
Article praising Ponce de Leon's appearance
...find relief from the din and confusion of the city, during the long, hot summer. When the gates of the park are opened wide for the thousands of visitors they...
Six Yellow Stanzas
...me and kiss me, talk that talk. 3. I don't know how to talk that talk. I am visiting friends of a family friend. These Creole ways are something I...
Call for Submissions: Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces
...article processing charge. Visit our submissions page for more information. Queer Intersections / Southern Spaces, March 2018. Collage by Eric Solomon. Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0. Image credits available...