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Southern Spaces

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

Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion

McGirt v. Oklahoma: Implications of the 2020 Supreme Court Decision for Native America

Craig Womack, Barbara Creel, et al.

A Mess of Poke

Allison O. Adams

Inside Poor Monkey's

A vast open field lines with trees and a single pale strip of water cutting through the center towards the sky.

"Closest to Everlastin'": Ozark Agricultural Biodiversity and Subsistence Traditions

Brian C. Campbell

University of Central Arkansas

Highlighting the practices of Willodean Smyth, a traditional Ozark farmer/gardener, this essay uses archival and ethnographic research to discuss the interrelationships between agricultural biodiversity and subsistence patterns.

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Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics

Encountering COVID

Michelle Fishburne

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

Mark Auslander and Lisa Fager

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

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CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

Daniel A. Pollock

Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt

Scott L. Matthews

A Green Democratic Revolution

Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts

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

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

Stephanie Bryan

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba's Plantations

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

Steve Bransford

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

Sonic Zora in Florida

Daphne A. Brooks