Nannie's Stone: Appendices by Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager
Appendix I: Background on the Family of Francis Tinney Charles Teney manumitted Francis's father William Don Otius Teney on November 15, 1827, along with William's siblings Ann and Andrew and their...
Crossing Over: Sustainability, New Urbanism, and Gentrification in Austin, Texas
...Flickr users Brent Dixon (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), John Crossley (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0), and halliehh (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). New Urbanism has drawn criticism for reproducing elite landscapes even as it articulates...
Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South
...of Black exclusion from social, political and cultural belonging; our abjection from the realm of the human."1Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press,...
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...
"Out long enough to be historic": Racialized Gay Space in Pre-Stonewall San Antonio
...Antonio's Outrageous Fiesta Tradition (San Antonio: Maverick Books, 2017)—from which her article, "Crowning King Anchovy," condenses information. While ONE, a monthly magazine published by ONE, Inc., a gay rights organization...
Unearthing the Weeping Time: Savannah's Ten Broeck Race Course and 1859 Slave Sale
...of 429 enslaved in Savannah to pay off enormous gambling debts, recoup stock market losses, and stay solvent.8Butler resided mainly in Philadelphia, but spent a few months out of some...
Mapping the Muggleheads: New Orleans and the Marijuana Menace, 1920–1930
...city's users.11Between May 1923 and December 1929, the Times-Picayune published at least three hundred stories with references to marijuana, roughly one per week. The number of articles mentioning marijuana more...
"It's Being Black and Poor": Race, Class, and Desegregation at Pebblebrook High
...as a result of desegregation, only 37% of black students attended mostly black schools, by the year 2000, that number had grown to 69%, quickly approaching the 1968 numbers for...
"I Used That Katrina Water To Master My Flow": Rap Performance, Disaster, and Recovery in New Orleans
...the guitar, Washington, DC, January 15, 2008. Photograph by Flickr user Georgetown Voice. Courtsey of Georgetown Voice, Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC-SA 2.0. Big Freedia at Bootleg Theater, Los Angeles,...
Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation
...was a common situation throughout the antebellum South. Thomas Jefferson may be the most famous transgressor with Sally Hemings, but he had company. Historians place the number of mulattoes in...