Love and Death in Mississippi
Blog Post I can remember the first time I understood death. Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, early in the mornings, my mother would visit one of her home care...
Social Justice Environmentalism
...health those activities offered. "[T]he color line in any guise was inherently environmental," explains historian Mark Fiege. The spatial configuration of cities and towns, reservation boundaries, Jim Crow segregation on...
Residues of Border Control
...powerful sign of the unfinished status of even the most secured border, and by extension the possibility of changing the existing terms of the debate and ultimately the shape of...
Submission Guidelines
...Spaces uses Unicheck software to check every article for plagiarism during the review process. By submitting a piece to Southern Spaces, authors affirm that their work is original. Southern Spaces does...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...a joyful family reunion going on against the backdrop of an industrial facility, of a community leader accepting a check from a refinery manager with a lovably dopey grin, of...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...in a suit smiled, said hello, challenged me, "You don't know me, do you?" She had been the cashier who'd checked me out on Saturday at Wal-Mart, I guess holding...
J-Mill on Regulating
J-Mill [Jeremy Miller]. 1994. "Regulatin' and Mic Checkin'." The Source 54, Mar., 24. [excerpt] "In Miami, DJing has been going strong since the early days of hip-hop, but a...
A Plague of Bulldozers: Celestine Sibley and Suburban Sprawl
...by tagging along with Atlanta's Red Dog antidrug squad. Trocheck, untitled tribute to Celestine Sibley, in The Celestine Sibley Sampler, 37. These spaces bring about a "sense of melancholy for what...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...by Howard Emerson, March 1963, quoted in Howard Emerson, "Sharecropper's Strike, 1939" (Senior honors thesis, Southeast Missouri State University, 1963), 41; "Investigation Concerning the Sharecropper Situation Existing in Southeast Missouri,"...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...variety of community purposes. One of Parksley's founders boasted that "foresight was shown in the reservation of a five acre site to be maintained as a park on the west...