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

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...essay is adapted from Wood's Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940. Copyright 2009 by the University of North Carolina Press. Used by permission of the publisher. www.uncpress.unc.edu....

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...call home. About the Author Gregory Samantha Rosenthal is the author of Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021)....

Sonic Zora in Florida

...the swinging "Charleston rhythms" of "Oh the Buford Boat Done Come," music picked up by Hurston from a South Carolina Geechee country woman she met in Florida. She stands at...

Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry

Presentation About the Author John Howard is Emeritus Professor of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. He is interested in the historical production of human differences and their attendant...

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective

American and British Slave Trade Abolition in Perspective Part 2: Davis discusses connections between enslaved African labor, trans-Atlantic trade, and emerging anti-slavery movements Part 3: Davis discusses three major factors...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...for Photography, the Museum of Fine Art Boston, The Light Factory’s 4th Juried Annuale in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the University of Maine Museum of Art Photo National 2011 where...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...Bey. Within the full context of Elegy, viewers can understand the impact of this scene. The slow march from the Manchester docks, from Virginia through the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama to...

Junction City newspaper

Junction City Tribune. "The Exodus." May 1, 1879. "Beneath the surface of this whole affair, however, there is a quiet practical joke. For years the north has complained that the...