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

Whatwuzit?: The 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics Reconsidered

...rose above the corporate clutter and county-fair schlock of downtown Atlanta like a brightly colored hot-air balloon. Above it all."10http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/At-last-looking-at-Atlanta-in-rearview-mirror-3130462.php Post Torch While the Olympics were an ephemeral moment in...

Encountering COVID

...parallel bars and sit in this wheelchair and push up. And then they started walking me, and it was amazing because I hadn't walked in ninety-something days. I got off-balance...

Whiskey and Geography

...government to drastically redraw its tax policy. While a whiskey tax remained on the books until the 1840s, the feds stopped collecting it for decades to come. Congress could find...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...of discrimination against blacks, although they usually did so with words rather than dynamite. LULAC leader Tijerina enforced a strict Jim Crow policy at his business. "He took the unusual...