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

Besieged Terrain

...the largest remaining parcels of Appalachian Mixed Mesophytic Forest. Moist, broad-leaf forest, the Mixed Mesophytic extends on the Appalachian Plateau from northern Alabama, through east central Tennessee, western North Carolina,...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...police in the 1960s, to our contemporary moment of hyper-surveillance and police brutality, US society can view Black suffering’s ever-mounting evidence. Photographer and visual artist Dawoud Bey explores the history...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...after the Selma prayer breakfast and his Brown Chapel speech, as Obama claimed the requisite delegates to become the Democratic nominee, he offered a cheering St. Paul, Minnesota, crowd a...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...Southeast, and West Coast. He also gives plenty of space to African American journalism, sometimes folded into his geographical schema (the Chicago Defender is a midwestern publication, the California Eagle...