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

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...of Coronavirus on the Way We Live (New York: Little, Brown Spark 2020);  Scott Gottlieb, Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic (New...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...reprint ed. (New York: Bloomsbury, 2014). I had met Thomas in New Orleans for the first time a few weeks before the ceremony. I had asked her then what slavery...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...Mississippi), September 10, 1894 and many other newspapers in August and September 1894. In the articles, Sexton Henry Bowles (c. 1840–1907) explained that familiar toys and tools encouraged the spirits...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...containers transporting biosolids from New York and New Jersey wastewater treatment plants to Big Sky Landfill, Adamsville, AL, January 2018. Photograph by Dennis Pillion. "Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of train cars...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...such as James Hicks who covered the trial for several African American newspapers, Murray Kempton of the New York Post, and even Emmett's mom Mamie Till-Mobley, praised the prosecutors. The...

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