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

The Place of Appalachia

...serious efforts to address such social divisions and inequities.3Stephen L. Fisher, ed., Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993). Indeed, Don Manning-Miller in...

The Change

...whenever we smoked and did not smoke for pleasure and I  was content and free. Then they came and changed things and you left me for a fancy white girl...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, 2015. Video by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Recording Exchange in Wales and Appalachia In 1974,...

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

..."Changes in COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Black and White Individuals in the US," JAMA Network Open 5, no. 1 (2022), https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2788286. A survey published in January 2022, found that COVID-19...

Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey

...was undergoing systematic economic changes as well as recovering from a disastrous war. Circumstances became dire as my father’s family grappled with extreme poverty and starvation. Yearning for new beginnings...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...they haunt bronze water cannons, bronze children washed in sodium light. They rake the teeth of cut-steel pinschers, praying change from their metal tongues. One lies beneath a swayback boy...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...and construction, Collier Heights represents more than a hallmark of change. The neighborhood became a sanctuary where black Atlantans claimed a space of their own. As I return to the...