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

Love and Death at Second-Line

...was man-to-man — a turf war over beer sales, I'd learn later. I was amazed with how many terms for street shootings we have in New Orleans. Though I knew...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

Review Lawrence Aaron Nixon, born in Marshall, Texas, in 1883—as Will Guzmán chronicles in Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands—grew to manhood at a time when whites in the Lone...

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

...a health risk." King's College London Podcast, June 11, 2020, https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/how-covid-19-has-exposed-racism-as-a-health-risk. Like many Black households in the US, my family had little reason to "trust the science," especially that produced...

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...block the enforcement of the new law. African American legislators in Arkansas have compared the new law to the poll taxes used in southern states during the Jim Crow era....

Congregation

Congregation https://vimeo.com/134849755  Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Congregation," 2010. View poem text here.   National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map of Gulfport, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast About Natasha Trethwey...

Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local

...landscape of Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1963 Texts Referenced James Baldwin, Excerpt from Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) Margaret Walker, "Micah" (1970) Eudora Welty, Excerpt from "Where is...