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

Brushes with War

...1670 through the Stono Rebellion (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974), Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), and three recent books on black...

How the Court Killed the Voting Rights Act

...from Justice Alito’s own jargon, the new guidelines demand Black plaintiffs play with loaded dice. This new guideline in essence requires a plaintiff to show how likely a legislature (assumed...

Deep Ellum Blues

...trying to get to something like the newly developed Quadrangle, an elegant new shopping development just a few blocks away in the Oak Lawn district. Perhaps a wrong turn was...

A Southern Underground Railroad

...Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, September 1856. University of Georgia Press, Manifold edition. "Entangled Borders" revisits the colonial boundary line of the St. Mary's River during Florida's second Spanish period (1783-1821),...