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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

...Watch, Dec. 13, 2023, https://westvirginiawatch.com/2023/12/13/public-schools-likely-to-lose-21m-after-thousands-of-students-left-for-hope-scholarship/; Annelise Hanshaw, “Opposition remains for sprawling education bill expanding Missouri private school tax credits,” Missouri Independent, Mar. 28, 2024, https://missouriindependent.com/2024/03/28/opposition-remains-for-sprawling-education-bill-expanding-missouri-private-school-tax-credits/; McKenna Horsley, “‘Game changer:’ Amendment...

Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire

...African Contribution to Rice Cultivation in the Americas," American Historical Review 112, no. 5 (2007): 1329–1358; Walter Hawthorne, "From 'Black Rice' to 'Brown': Rethinking the History of Risiculture in the Seventeenth-...

Besieged Terrain

...arrow darter, and the endangered, "gorgeous" Allegheny wood rat. The southern Appalachian Mountains consist of four broad provinces: the Blue Ridge, Great Valley, Ridge and Valley, and Appalachian Plateau. The...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act," Southern Spaces, August 29, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act. As a result, by voiding Section 5 and now greatly weakening Section 2, the Court...

Genres of Southern Literature

...from the "anti-Tom" novels crafted in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin down to such blockbuster historical epics of the Civil Rights Era as Alex Haley's Roots, Ernest...