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

I-26, Corridor of Change

...embarrassed that my photographs offered no tangible benefits in a place that seemed to value useful things that aided survival: firewood, bean seeds, a cut of cloth. Then, as I...

Inside Poor Monkey's

...over the Dutch door separating the kitchen from the main public space, through which beverage purchases are passed, reads, "This is a high class place. Act respectable." In one corner...

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology

...for best film, and Quvenzhané Wallis, his spunky, firebreathing star, may be crowned best actress. In the movie she plays the part of one of Louisiana's Katrina-surviving, throwaway children, but...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...can do better than that. They can make their representatives justify the trust placed in them. They can demand more of their government. They can assert a right to land...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...questions of authorship and interlinked notions of authority implicit in the attempt to write across boundaries of race, gender, and class, effectively positioning myself out of place as an artist. Who...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...site, a place where visitors could pull off the highway to stop at the memorial, a place for meditation and for ongoing education. Former Greyhound terminal, downtown Anniston, Alabama, 2009....