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

Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs

...the town's industrial capacity and access to natural resources and cheap labor. As Spears notes, Anniston was founded as an experiment during Reconstruction and by the 1880s had been dubbed...

Besieged Terrain

...and steep and narrow ridgelines and coves. Robinson forest sign in Robinson Forest, Kentucky, June 10, 2008. Photograph by Wikipedia user J654567. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. People love the higher...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...in and intellectually engaging with the US South. On Tuesday, June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court ruled five–four to strike down section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965....

Good-Bye to All That?

...struck by the voting unity of white working class voters and well-to-do retirees. In the western end of the county, retirees in upscale developments around Lake Toxaway joined hands with...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...Eligon, "'This Ruling Gives Us Hope': Supreme Court Sides with Tribe in Salmon Case," New York Times, June 11, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/us/washington-salmon-culverts-supreme-court.html. Dick Gregory on the Nisqually River, near Olympia, Washington,...

The Bulletin—January 29, 2013

...violated the Tenth Amendment and Article IV of the United States Constitution." The case involves the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed suit on behalf of the Alabama State Conference...