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

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...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...step of posting a detailed policy statement, titled 'Negroes,' on the serving of blacks in his Felix Mexican Restaurants," writes Behnken. "Most eating establishments simply hung a 'whites only' sign....

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

...(New York: Scribner, 1971; Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2003), 78. Differential access was also maintained. The only Blacks permitted to pass through the station's white waiting rooms were...