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

Gordon Parks at Atlanta's High Museum of Art

...studies that question the extent to which empathy can counter racial prejudice—such as philosopher Stephen T. Asma's contention that human capacity for empathy does not easily extend beyond an individual's...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...so intense that they are forced to acknowledge their impotence."7Katz, 57.  It is the realization of this powerlessness that, in turn, becomes curative. Katz concludes: "Potency is the Lord's —...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...in New Mexico, though a strong essay that presents a similar argument to that made in Lynching Beyond Dixie, seems out of place here. The editors do not claim that...

Lyrics to Pretty Saro

...would write my love a letter that she might understand. I'd send it by the waters where the islands overflow And I'd think of my darling wherever she'd go. Way...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...reported that Mitchell was a troublemaker and a "Negro-hater" and that the mob was "composed of young hot-headed fellows, and not of the older and very best citizens of the...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...American politics wasn't that difficult. The key was to figure out who hates whom — "That is the secret." This formula, which reached its apotheosis in the Rovean politics of...