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

Religion and the US South

...South was the movement of increasing numbers of settlers into backcountry areas of Virginia and the Carolinas after 1750. Attracted by inexpensive land, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Separate Baptists from the northern...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...(105). From two letters? Coverage of the Emmett Till trial in Jet, September 22, October 6, and October 13, 1955. There are further problems with inferring sectional opinion from newsprint....

Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics

...“Mound Bayou,” Mississippi Encyclopedia, July 11, 2017, https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/mound-bayou/. At its height, Mound Bayou, the “Jewel of the Delta,” housed successful Black businesses, a public school system, and a community-run hospital.2Rosen,...

CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

...became glaringly obvious during the pandemic and contributed to numerous missteps in the US response to COVID-19."2Daniel Pollock, "COVID-19 Lessons in Ignorance," Southern Spaces, April 28, 2022, the first in...

Elegy for the Native Guards

Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...