The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Retelling Virginia's Migration History
...own histories. While traditional migrant destinations such as Miami, Los Angeles, or New York loom large in demography and popular consciousness, many locales have significant and diverse foreign-born populations. “The...
The Bulletin—December 20, 2012
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living...
Finding Media
Finding media is a big issue for us here at Southern Spaces. We’re constantly searching for new photographers to highlight in our Featured Images section, and we’re often tasked with...
#SAYHERNAME: Towards a Gender Inclusive Movement for Black Lives
Presentation Question & Answer Session About the Speaker Dr. Brittney Cooper is assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. She received her PhD in American Studies from the...
Transcript of "When I Say 'Steal,'Who Do You Think Of?": Part One
...the southern segregation who knew nothing of slavery, of how people of the African diaspora had once been owned as property. I was a child of the U. S. during...
Color Photographs from the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information
John Vachon, Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas, 1943. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Color Photographs Collection, LC-USW36-839. Southern Spaces recently added six new images to the...
Work
...undergird your life. But fate may lead you down a surprising path. One day you may wake up and find you had more choices than you knew. You leave your...
In Memory Hill Cemetery
...rod, the first for birth, second for life, and third for death in slavery — household slaves working for the important families of Georgia's old capital. When did the third...
Call for Submissions: Public Health and/in the US and Global South
...Ellen Griffith Spears, and Kate Orff. "Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction." Southern Spaces, November 26, 2013. https://southernspaces.org/2013/petrochemical-america-petrochemical-addiction. Hill, Sarah. "Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838." Southern Spaces, August 23, 2012. https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838....