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

States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act

...http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Redistricting-debate-hears-new-argument-4655908.php. Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange called the decision "an important victory for the fundamental constitutional principle that all states enjoy equal sovereignty."15"AG Strange Praises the US Supreme Court for...

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...

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...

Shaping a Southern Soundscape

...conventions mixed with popular memory, amateur and "professional" history, the study of folklore, and decades of activism by southern "heritage" societies. We know that this thing called the South—a new...

Mississippi Delta

...an extensive flood control system. The New Deal introduced the most extensive federal government presence in the region since Reconstruction. Planters used New Deal appropriations to their advantage, accepting payments...

Residues of Border Control

...Tavernise and Robert Gebeloff, "Immigrants Make Paths to Suburbia, Not Cities," in The New York Times (New York: 2010). Even in terms of the absolute increase in foreign-born population, three...