Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...Mays, who lived in Atlanta for much his life. "He treated all Negroes with equal disrespect," preventing Black celebrities such as Marian Anderson from passing through the station's front doors...
Queer Memory: Loss, Martyrs, and Memorialization in Southern Florida
...to open Pulse. In remembering him and honoring the life he lived, Poma established Pulse in 2004, named "for John's heartbeat" and a place where "he is kept alive in...
No Place To Be Displaced: Katrina Response and the Deep South's Political Economy
...returned to New Orleans to uncertain employment and housing options. All of the evacuees we interviewed lived in Section 8 apartment complexes in West Columbia. And all but one were...
Baptists and Witches: Multiple Jurisdictions in a Muskogee Creek Story
...saying what they had done, and how they would do again what they had done, because he had not given up, for he was alive, and she was alive, and...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
...ways. We fervently hope for "a world where Black lives are no longer systematically targeted for demise."2"About," Black Lives Matter, https://blacklivesmatter.com/about. Southern Spaces is a journal devoted to critically and...
"The Room that We're Able to Take Up": Forrest Lawson's Queer Aesthetic
...loneliness. We end our conversation remembering and honoring the forty-nine lives lost at the Pulse nightclub shooting in central Florida. Convoluted Beginnings: Heterize, Placebo, "Closeted" Convoluted #2, Orlando, Florida, 2016....
Confederates in Mexico: Lost Cause or New South Vanguard?
...and New Mexico, 1800–1850 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 37. Wahlstrom's research makes clear that the US-Mexico War did not diminish economic and settlement patterns. Instead, ex-Confederate migration mapped...
Stormy Banks and Sweet Rivers: A Sacred Harp Geography
...of whom live in north Alabama. Many hail from the Sand Mountain region, especially the communities of Ider and Henagar. Sacred Harp singers know the Wootten family for their distinct...
The Makers of the Sacred Harp
...and long-lived singing traditions in the US South. First published in 1844 by Georgia compilers B.F. White and E.J. King, the book has been constantly used and occasionally revised. For...
Social Justice Environmentalism
..."community control" in urban areas. In their call for self-determination, black nationalists took up the slogan, "Free the Land."4Alondra Nelson, "The Longue Durée of Black Lives Matter," American Journal of...