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

"Aint that Something?"

Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...haunted a whole generation of people, especially those who became activists in the Freedom Struggle. Darryl Mace's In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black...

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

...and updated articles related to the publication. Then we told that we were self-promoting and should stop; also some of our contributions were removed. As the managing editor at Southern...

Encountering COVID

...of fact, I'm in the RV at Jordan Lake State Park near Chapel Hill. It's about ten minutes from where I raised the kids. I have a twenty-three-year-old who has...

Editors

...Associate Kelly Gannon (2014–2019) Editorial Associate Sophia Leonard (2017–2019) Managing Editor Rachel Kolb (2018–2019) Editorial Associate Stephanie Larson (2015–2017) Review Editor Jordan Johnson (2014–2017) Managing Editor Meredith Doster (2013–2016) Managing Editor Alan G. Pike...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

Blog Post In a 2021 case from Arizona, Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., issued an opinion of the US Supreme Court—calling it a "fresh look"—that sabotages Section 2 of the...

LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72

...Journal Constitution.6Michael Kahn, "Review: Gallery 72, former home to the AJC, sparks new life into Marietta Street," ArtsATL, May 1, 2014, http://www.artsatl.com/2014/05/review-gallery-72/. The LiFT Team (from left to right: Jordan Streiff, Shady Patterson, Miriam...

The Heavenly Port, Common Meter, 378t

On Jordan’s stormy banks I stand, And cast a wishful eye……   From White, B.F. The Sacred Harp Revised Cooper edition, Samson, Alabama: Sacred Harp Book Co., 2006. Published: 17...