An Upcountry Legacy: Mary Black's Family Quilts
...ordinary objects that remain from past generations, must be examined in "new and imaginative ways" to achieve "a different appreciation for what life is today, and was in the past."...
Mapping Souths
...his map of the South, too, terminates in a project of warfare, this one to suppress the South's revolutionary intentions. Today, the positions staked out by Trescot and Marx seem...
Covid Light and Darkness Alike
...that our worlds never fall apart, in taking the day-to-day for granted. We like to think we know better (“Here today, gone tomorrow,” and all that). Whatever we know doesn’t...
Making Lumbeeland: An Interview with Malinda Maynor Lowery
...the case of the Lumbee community, we didn't experience the geographic displacement that so many other tribes did in the Southeast, so today we live next to the people whose...
Sunset Colonies: Photographs by Diego Alejandro Waisman
...tossed them into the air to see where they’d land. Here was the last vestige of the Key West that Jimmy Buffet immortalized. Here were today’s pirates and renegades, misfits...
Editorial Style Guide
...does not capitalize "civil rights movement." Identifiers related to race, cultural identity, or ethnicity: Southern Spaces capitalizes racial and ethnic identifiers (e.g. Latinx, Asian American, Native American, African American); racial...
A Review of The Lynching of Mexicans in the Texas Borderlands
...lynched African Americans for alleged offenses that challenged white supremacy, Villanueva argues that Anglos lynched Mexicans to police "citizenship and sovereignty" (5). Although Mexican Americans were "white by law" since...
Love and Death at Second-Line
...Cozy Corner. I mused with friends over how jazz funerals with their African and European mingled traditions bring so many strangers and friends together to express honor, grief, sorrow, joy,...
Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment
...July 28, 2012, 12 Noon First African Baptist Church, 130 Tyler Street, Monroe, GA 30655 (at Highway 11, Across from Church’s Chicken) Schedule 12 Noon - Church opens for meditation...
Digital Spaces: A Call for Articles and Multi-Media Projects
...Modes of Resistance: A Review of Hypercities." Southern Spaces, September 15, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/spatial-humanities-and-modes-resistance-review-hypercities. Battle, Mary. "Highlighting Charleston's African American History through the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative." Southern Spaces, October 6,...