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

Katrina + 5: An X-Code Exhibition

...familiar to most citizens. With some 80% of New Orleans’ structures marked, the code commanded unprecedented attention.14http://www.fema.gov/, Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Response System Field Operations Guide, FEMA, September 2003...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...rights across the nation. It creates a list of standards that federal courts should consider when applying Congress's 1982 amendments to the Voting Rights Act's Section 2—the section that permits...

Genres of Southern Literature

...organizational forms and features instead of its chronological appearance also shifts the grounds of historical emphasis. For instance, to group southern literature under the headings "antebellum" and "postbellum" makes the...

The Crowd He Becomes

15 September 1963, Birmingham Later he will say he did not do it, he was home at breakfast, just ask the wife, say they heard some radio preacher doing love...

Shadows along the Waccamaw

Readings Dan Albergotti reads "The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "The Boatloads." Poem text. Dan Albergotti reads the poem "Accidents Happen with...

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

...contemporaries were concerned with, as they described it, sensory overstimulation, often taking the forms of excessive religious feeling or female "hysteria." Psychiatry's concern with religious excitement formed part of a...