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

Mississippi: State of Confession

...white supremacy was central to everyday life, carried out consciously and (at times) unwittingly by mainstreet individuals and their religious and civic institutions.2See for example, Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home:...

Palomares Bajo

...founding of the far-right Popular Alliance, progenitor of today's Popular Party, akin to the white South's beloved Republican Party.)18Szulc, 199. "US 'very committed' to find a way to clean Palomares,"...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...developed, financed, designed, and constructed by African Americans for African American residents.2See Betsy Riley, "Collier Heights awarded Local Historic district status," Atlanta Magazine, May 16, 2013, http://www.atlantamagazine.com/civilrights/collier-heights-awarded-local-historic-district-status/; U.S. Department of the...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...Missionaries, 1789–1839 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984); William G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986); Thurman Wilkins, Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...Her central interests include American literature and culture, gender studies, African-American literature, southern literature, and regional literature. She is the author of Edith Wharton's Letters from the Underworld: Fictions of...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...do what it should do: stand between citizens and the power of capital. It is difficult to find anything Appalachians have gained by voting for Republicans. Yet a majority in...