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

Carolina's Caribbean Origins: A Review of Hubs of Empire

...Narratives: The Postplantation Literature of Faulkner, Glissant, Morrison, and Saint-John Perse (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007). It is salutary to occasionally violate these framing devices—their utility notwithstanding—in the interest...

Besieged Terrain

..."A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it does otherwise."1Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac:...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...members who comprise the Court's conservative wing on controversies of race, Justice Alito upholds Arizona law that invalidates a voter's entire ballot if it is cast in the wrong precinct...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...in 1980 still resonates. "At its worst . . . regional identification is an isolationist impulse." He deconstructs an essentialist mountain identity. And yet, "The political value of regional identity...