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

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...in a rule's impact on members of different racial or ethnic groups"—not if a disparity exists, but how large the disparity is. In this way, the opinion suggests that the...

Placeholder: Carolina Poems of Love and Labor

...Allison Hedge Coke reads her poem "Putting Up Beans." Poem text. An Interview with Allison Hedge Coke   Part 2: Coke discusses “Packin’ Four Corner Nabs,” a poem about working in a...

Geography

Geography Natasha Trethewey reads her poem "Geography," 2010. Poem text.   About the Poet Natasha Trethewey is a professor of English and the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...in Illinois's horrific Cherry Mine Disaster in 1909. Organized labor, Dixon emphasized, was a family; working people needed security, safety, and decent pay to keep their children properly fed and...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...they lived with a coterie of other young people. They threw raucous queer parties and housed folks who didn't have anywhere else to go. A few blocks down the street...

Call for Submissions: Remembering COVID-19

...health infrastructure? How did the politicization of Covid impede mobilization for the crisis, affect vaccination strategies and distribution efforts, and/or shape conflicting narratives of the pandemic in the US and...