Inside Poor Monkey's
Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...
Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander
Interview with Natasha Trethewey Part 2: Alexander discusses growing up in NYC and Washington DC, DC as Upsouth, identifications with Blackness and southernness Part 3: Alexander discusses southernness and urban space, and...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
...March on Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 13, 2016. Photograph by Flickr user Stephen Melkisethian. Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. Southern Spaces welcomes submissions that: critically and creatively examine real...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
Introduction The catfish didn't miss the current. They'd never known it. They lapped the pond all day like pace cars. At feeding time, they thrashed for their share of pellets....
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....
Southern Spaces Recommends, October 2020
...the movie certainly embody it. Ellen Griffith Spears, editorial board: For fiction, there's the gripping tale of the global timber trade and the European conquest of eastern Canada and northern...
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)....
Mother Jones: Back in Alabama
Blog post Mother Jones died ninety years ago, but she was back in Alabama this July. It was not her first visit to the state. She came to Birmingham and...
Sonic Zora in Florida
...(Orlando: University of Central Florida Press, 1991), 149. Hurston's shrewd rhythmic elongation of a north-of-the-border place (a place where Black fugitives found shelter from those who sought to return them...
Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)
...Windsor, Ohio, in the far northeastern corner of the border state, near Lake Erie. He was indentured as a servant from his childhood until he turned twenty-one, working in brutal...