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

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...be the first president of African descent, and in doing so eradicated racism forever." Nominating himself as Secretary of Postracial Affairs, Whitehead promised to reimagine a number of pre-postracial cultural...

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

Interview Part 2: Morgan reads “Backwater” and discusses his history of coming to terms with his origins Part 3: Morgan reads “Heaven” and discusses the place of nostalgia in his poetry Part...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...the Civil Rights Trail.10Charles E. Cobb, On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail, 1st ed. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008)....

Blues in the Lower Chattahoochee Valley

...his real name be used on any of the Mitchell recordings issued in his lifetime; instead, the Barfield recordings issued on labels like Flyright and Southland were done so under...

The Cobb County Braves

...the new stadium will follow a current trend in stadium development in the United States. As teams build new ballparks with smaller capacities, ticket prices rise as demand increases. Furthermore,...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...center of that conversation. Acknowledgments All images of letters displayed are Copyright 1959, 1960, 1963 by Flannery O'Connor; Copyright renewed 1987, 1988, 1991 by Regina Cline O'Connor. Permission granted by...