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

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...honor: Part historic preservation, part act of defiance, the spray-painted markings of Katrina rescue workers remain prominently displayed on many reoccupied New Orleans homes." New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 24, 2007....

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...love of fun and whimsy. The city's storied restaurants, several of them still in business, get proper billing; so do legendary recipes. Even the history it serves up is entertaining,...

Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...descent "had no rights which the white man was bound to respect." This essay places Nannie's enigmatic gravesite and headstone in the context of the social, political, and spiritual history...

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

...or requiring, lessons on race, sex and gender,” Washington Post, Apr. 4, 2024; “America’s Censored Classrooms,” PEN America, Aug. 17, 2022, https://pen.org/report/americas-censored-classrooms/. It is hard to imagine a more divergent,...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...realization of race and class continues to be Sutpen's epiphany in Absalom, Absalom! after he is turned away, pointedly classified, by the well-dressed doorkeeper of a Tidewater residence and sent...