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

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

...not leaving public schools, department says,” New Hampshire Bulletin, Mar. 22, 2022, https://newhampshirebulletin.com/briefs/mosteducation-freedom-account-recipients-not-leaving-public-schools-department-says/; News Service Florida, “New report shows nearly 123,000 new students received Florida school vouchers in 2023,” NBC...

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...New Orleans—variants of the X-code left by searchers as they systematically covered the city, critically pertinent markings applied to visited houses and buildings. “Paint fades, archives endure,” reads a promotional...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...of slavery through landscape photography in his exhibition Elegy which I visited in January 2024 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Elegy features three photographic collections and two short...

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...our house paint."6Barton, op. cit. Dorothy Moye, Bywater neighborhood, Tibetan prayer flags and poster with preserved code, 2009. Other New Orleanians purposefully preserve their X-codes as powerful memory markers, integral...

Segregationists, Libertarians, and the Modern "School Choice" Movement

...far been unable to convince Congress to fund such programs directly.4Jane Mayer, "Betsy DeVos, Trump's Big-Donor Education Secretary," New Yorker, November 23, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/betsy-devos-trumps-big-donor-education-secretary; Emma Brown, "DeVos Promises 'the Most...