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

The Carolina Piedmont

...significant numbers. Enslaved African Americans made up ten percent of the Carolina Piedmont's population in the 1760s. By 1800, only two or three counties had black populations of more than...

Revisiting Flaherty's Louisiana Story

...the African hot wind and percussion orchestra; the typical Zydeco combo of accordion and frottoir or washboard playing hot licks to what might be an old African chant." When set...

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...frame and explored violence directed against racial and ethnic groups other than African Americans.2See William D. Carrigan and Christopher Waldrep, eds., Swift to Wrath: Lynching in Global Historical Perspective (Charlottesville:...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...Such efforts to oppose USDA discrimination have been buried, and constitute an invisible residue of the civil rights movement. The history of African American farmers created a remarkable trajectory. African...

Opening Remarks: 2014 Callaloo Conference

...Callaloo Conference, our seventh annual gathering, which focuses on "Making Art: Writing, Authorship, and Critique," a subject that seldom, if ever, receives significant headliner attention at academic conferences today. For...

The Bulletin—December 20, 2012

...himself from ruling on a case alleging that the state Republican Party "improperly limited" the influence of African American and other minority voters in North Carolina in the latest round...