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

Reckoning with Enslavement

Excerpt Georgetown, April 2017 It was early morning when I crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge from Virginia into Georgetown. College spires loomed in the distance, gray in the dawn...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...conservationists were also eugenicists. White supremacy and nativism—hostility toward immigrants—were integral to the way many early conservationists understood their work. These ideas infused (and continue to infuse) debates about overpopulation,...

The Cobb County Braves

...When the lease on the team's current home at Turner Field expires in 2016, the Braves will move to a new ballpark at the northwest intersection of I-75 and I-285...

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...that Appalachian studies isn't interdisciplinary enough? For instance, urban planners, demographers, and ethnographers (among others) are needed to understand urban Appalachia, immigration, housing, and employment. To be fully interdisciplinary, Appalachian...

The Crowd He Becomes

...the crush of lookers in cigarette smoke, in the breath of many lungs, common, innocuous, a cloud about to disappear. * Will stand imagining him split at each intersection, now...