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

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...the federal government, they may become independent at any time with a majority vote consisting of two-thirds of adult residents, at which time all federal programs associated with this Act...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...Times," http://www.federationsoutherncoop.com/pigford/Response%20to%20Pigford%20NYTimes%20Coverage[2].pdf; Ralph Paige and Rachel Slocum, "Letters: Bias and a Settlement With Black Farmers," The New York Times, May 3, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/opinion/bias-and-a-settlement-with-black-farmers.html. Even after black farmers won their case...

The Shenandoah Valley

...Photographs Division, loc.gov/item/hec2013014791/.  The removals stirred animosity and resentment among longtime residents in the region toward the state and federal officials, as well as the local brokers, who created the...