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

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...

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...

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...

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....

Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

...repositories of Africana art, as places of historical significance in their own right, and as places and resources for Africana art making and creativity. Africana archives in the United States...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...amount of £ 340 Sterg To purchase religious books for The Poor.1The stone and that of the minister's sister Mary Davie are now inside a brick-walled enclosure built in 1927....

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...ghost of a dead civilization, as the ghost of Hellenic culture was evoked in thirteenth- to fifteenth-century Italy," insisted that "surely nothing of that sort took place in the South."...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...farmers to purchase seeds and fertilizer at planting time, chemicals to fight weeds, and often emergency funds for machine repairs, and, of course, tractors and picking machines, on credit. Many...