"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
Essay For over thirty years, historians in the United States have written about slavery in terms broached by John Blassingame's path-breaking book The Slave Community (1972). Blassingame, George Rawick, Lawrence...
Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"
Southwestern Humor Southwestern humor is perhaps the most intriguing of southern antebellum literary genres, for writers of this loose-knit "school," often contributors to sporting or gentlemen's magazines, abandoned the plantation...
African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City
Community Building in a New South City Atlanta offers a sharp perspective of the Black experience in the urban South during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The emergence of its...
New Histories of Environmental Activism: A Review of Rethinking the American Environmental Movement
Review For more than twenty years, scholars have sought in article after book after conference paper to expand the timeline, reach, and definition of environmental concern and activism. This uncoordinated...
Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects
Call for Blog Posts Southern Spaces is an open access, multimedia, peer-reviewed journal publishing innovative scholarship on regions, places, and cultures of the US South as well as their global...
Southern Spaces Stands with the Movement for Black Lives
Statement In the wake of the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, George Floyd, David McAtee, Dominique "Rem'mie" Fells, Riah Milton, and Rayshard Brooks—only the most recent deaths...
Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction
Essay In one of the stranger scenes of this year's presidential campaign marathon, a dozen Gees Bend quilters joined hands with candidate John McCain, singing "Old Ship of Zion" as...
The Border South
Defining the Border Anyone who has lived for a time in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, or Maryland has heard their place of residence categorized as "not really the South." Sometimes, folks...
New Patterns of Segregation: Latino and African American Students in Metro Atlanta High Schools
Latinos, the largest minority group in US public schools, are surpassing African Americans as the most segregated racial or ethnic group nationally. This isolation is well documented in states like...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
Essay Another Mother's Day has come and gone and still no officially supported memorial honors the Freedom Riders at the site where civil rights workers braved the vicious firebombing of...