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

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

...gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has launched a campaign to bring back Virginia's anti-sodomy law.1 The first proposed law on sodomy in the newly formed United States of America was introduced...

Besieged Terrain

...removal (MTR), involves scraping off the top layers of earth and dumping them into a nearby hollow. Federal law requires the mining companies to either restore the land, which they...

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...descent. With collections numbering in excess of ten million items including books, manuscripts, correspondence, personal and professional papers of individuals, archived records of Africana institutions and organizations, as well as...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...count on one hand the number of writers given high administrative responsibility. Saxon was one of them, and maybe the most highly regarded of the lot. On several occasions Washington...