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

Mapping Souths

...points up the illegitimacy of southern secession. (Frederick Law Olmsted employs an identical logic in The Cotton Kingdom of the same year, claiming that "an arbitrary political line may divide...

The Black Belt

...held a variety of local, state, and national political offices. With the mid-1870s however, came the restoration of white rule. Then, "for a hundred years," wrote Selma civil rights attorney...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...level of literal and conceptual “progress,” we also understand that, for the enslaved, a predatory path unfurled. Pulled backward across the center at "Evergreen," we ask, what force carries us...

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology

...feathery anger might frighten him away. Self accusation makes sense in terms of the film's psychological economy, but it also operates in a mythical or cosmic register. According to Chakrabarty,...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...environmental causes have often participated in actions to oppose racial injustice, eliminate poverty, and achieve gender equality. Such alliances have been essential to the success of the environmental movement. "Negroes'...

Memphis, Tennessee images

...of Memphis basketball teams. Baseball Figures, Autozone Park Completed in 2000, Autozone Park is the home to the Memphis Redbirds, the AAA affiliate of the National League's St. Louis Cardinals....

Mississippi: State of Confession

...by their belief in sin as a personal moral failure (not systemic), the primacy of individual conversion, final authority of the Bible, and the return of Christ. On defining evangelicals...