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

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...an imported contagion, claiming, for instance, "that white Texas drovers imported racist violence into the state's cattle towns" (34). White Kansans often asserted that "racist violence would always be foreign—no...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...presented in its introduction with the aims and the substance of the book. For instance, Guzmán clearly assumes that the civil rights movement occurred after World War II, an assumption...

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...Rivers, Langston Hughes Lobby, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York, New York, May 22, 2011. Flickr photograph by Matt Kingston. This public art installation...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...that Appalachian studies isn't interdisciplinary enough? For instance, urban planners, demographers, and ethnographers (among others) are needed to understand urban Appalachia, immigration, housing, and employment. To be fully interdisciplinary, Appalachian...