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

How I Shed My Skin

Presentation and Review Civil rights narratives often empower and embolden, promoting faith in possibilities, hope for rectifying inequities. More sober assessments show that, though we've come a long way—thanks to...

A City Divided

...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998).  Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...

Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World

...the various iterations of Lousiana's colonial slave codes, analyzing in rich, often imaginative detail, the aspirations and anxieties of authorities who attempted to construct and maintain categories of difference within...

Southern Spaces on Hurricane Katrina

...Gulfport, Mississippi, 2005." Southern Spaces, September 1, 2008, https://southernspaces.org/2008/barge-washed-ashore-after-hurricane-katrina-gulfport-mississippi-2005. Moye, Dorothy. "Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition." Southern Spaces, August 26, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/katrina-5-x-code-exhibition. ———. "The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript." Southern...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...and thorny questions, the least interesting of which is, "Are we beyond racism or not?"4David A. Hollinger, "The Concept of Post-Racial: How Its Easy Dismissal Obscures Important Questions," Daedalus 140, no. 1...