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

Mississippi Delta

...owned 400 slaves and decorated his home with the finest furniture from France. Large cotton yields and accumulating wealth created a powerful social group, the Delta planters, who would dominate...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...places—Atlanta, Georgia. (Before going any further, let me offer an aside: One simple and overly-deterministic answer to the question, "Why Atlanta?" is biographical. As you might have heard tell, Trethewey...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...the single most misused and unproven rationale in current partisan voting disputes. "Fraud can affect the outcome of a close election, and fraudulent votes dilute the right of citizens to...

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...New Orleans in 2009. http://analytical.chem.wsu.edu/faculty/hillh. Constance Lewis, Atlanta, Georgia. Fine art photographer and gallery owner, independent curator. Lewis’s curatorial projects include the founding of Opal Gallery, an Atlanta based artist...

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...Series." Gordon Parks: A Segregation Story, on view at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta through June 21, 2015, presents the published and unpublished photographs that Parks took during...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...