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

Loving-Moonlight(ing): Cinema in the Breach

...they broke the state's love law. A legal holdover from slavery and Jim Crow, the Virginia Racial Integrity Act of 19244Virginia was not alone in enforcing such legal holdovers. By...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...and to draw some parallels with 1980s black women artists is also to acknowledge–at best–indifference, alongside a lack of infrastructural support, issues of skills and knowledge gaps, and a commensurate...

Good-Bye to All That?

...mirage in our political downward spiral. I've often felt depressed, most recently after the 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2010 elections. My usual response to disappointment has been to feverishly read...

Remnants of Flannery

...on the Instagram feeds of some friends of mine who visited Andalusia and the Central State mental hospital recently, and the parallel, vicarious visit I had in my head as...

Palomares Bajo

...sea, to avert eyes from the atrocity. Thus, my present-day focus on human, animal, and plant life in Palomares seeks to occasion reflection on physiological and psychological traumas that have...

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology

...feathery anger might frighten him away. Self accusation makes sense in terms of the film's psychological economy, but it also operates in a mythical or cosmic register. According to Chakrabarty,...