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Southern Spaces

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

Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on the Pendleton Post Office

“The Emblem of North American Fraternity”: Opossums and Jim Crow Politics

Stephanie Bryan

Modeling the Marie-Séraphique: A Ship of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Steve Bransford

Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed’s The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives

Along the Ulcofauhatche: Of Sorrow Songs and "Dried Indian Creek"

Mark Auslander and Avis E. Williams

1108 Dynamite Hill

Joseph Quintana and Mary Campbell Kitchens

Spectacles of American Nationalism: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Painting and The Birth of a Nation

Daniel A. Pollock

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black

Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter

Book cover of A Question of Freedom by William Thomas

Reckoning with Enslavement

William G. Thomas III

Cover of the book When Sunday Comes.

When Sunday Comes: Gospel Music in the Soul and Hip-Hop Eras

Claudrena N. Harold

The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education

Joshua McCarter Simpson's "To the White People of America" (1854)

Jesse P. Karlsberg

Slipping Boundaries: The Tenacity of Aaron Henry

Black Lives at Arlington National Cemetery: From Slavery to Segregation

William A. Blair

Shared Space, Separate Pasts: Versions of Slavery in Charleston

Daniel A. Pollock

Shades of Violence: Jim Crow Justice and Black Resistance in the Depression-Era South

Jason Morgan Ward

Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta