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

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...The Mississippi that once sported the nostalgic slogan "The Magnolia State" is pointedly nationalist now, declaring itself on license plates to be "The Birthplace of America's Music."3Born in Columbus, Georgia,...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...of the story comes from the fact that people like Hodding Carter knew better, were truly horrified by the viciousness of the crime, but were not so horrified that they...

The Carolina Piedmont

...to desegregate factories and workplaces, or in the number of newly elected black officials. In reaction, drawing upon anti-government resentment and racial codewords, initiatives such as Richard Nixon's Southern Strategy...

The Bulletin—August 6, 2013

...gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli has launched a campaign to bring back Virginia's anti-sodomy law.1 The first proposed law on sodomy in the newly formed United States of America was introduced...

1108 Dynamite Hill

...line between white and Black property: white residents on the west side and Black residents on the east side. Ignoring Jim Crow, Drew's family and other Black families crossed the...

Whiskey and Geography

...can credit the Ulster immigrants for helping introduce the tradition to America. Through their influence, whiskey making became commonplace everywhere in the new colony, particularly on the frontier. Frenchman Marquis...