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

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...has paved over the evidence. “Stony the Road We Trod” & “350,000”  The first section of Bey’s Elegy, “Stony the Road We Trod,” (a lyric from James Weldon Johnson’s “Lift...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...penultimate line, "What a strange thing is 'race,' and family, stranger still." The poem's middle stanza takes an unexpected, if lovely, self-reflexive turn. While the other two stanzas offer us...