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

"Aint that Something?"

Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...

Cherokee Removal Scenes: Ellijay, Georgia, 1838

...new Cherokee laws and reject the proposed constitutional form of governance.15See Mooney’s History, 113–14; William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986), 191–92, and...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...do what it should do: stand between citizens and the power of capital. It is difficult to find anything Appalachians have gained by voting for Republicans. Yet a majority in...

Residues of Border Control

...an alien in Arizona without carrying registration documents and requires law enforcement officials to determine a person's immigration status if there is "reasonable suspicion" that the person is an "illegal...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...Registration and Voting, Washington, DC, 1963, 13–14, 65. Most states had few polling places in minority and poor communities. Most southern states had voting rolls with more dead white people...