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Southern Spaces

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

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

Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906

Making Space: A Review of Robert Paulett's An Empire of Small Places

Oak Ridgidness: Lindsey Freeman’s Longing for the Bomb

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Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

Chad Berry, Shaunna L. Scott, et al.

In an excerpt from Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking (Chicago: University of Illinois Press), editors Chad Berry, Phillip J. Obermiller, and Shaunna L. Scott advocate for a more accurate and critical understanding of the region.

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