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

Love and Death at Second-Line

...and fancy dresses, hot colors and cool hairdos. They were alternately somber or cheered as the mood of the music changed: slow dirge, medium hymn, fast march. Probably 2,500 made...

Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs

...mill" (25). As industry in Anniston changed, patterns of employment and residence remained the same. As a consequence, over a century later African Americans lived on the most PCB-polluted land...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...style and formatting. Please submit proposals (350–700 words), papers, or projects to seditor@emory.edu by February 15, 2013. Related Southern Spaces Links Amberg, Rob. "I-26, Corridor of Change." Southern Spaces, June 5, 2007, https://southernspaces.org/2007/i-26-corridor-change. ...

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

...cases, he took care to show changes in the culture along the generational boundaries, as when he recorded both a mother's version and a daughter's version of a Cuban folk...

Sowing The Seed Underground

Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

..."part of a larger effort to slow down the changes engulfing the South."9"Another monument," The Anniston Star, November 21, 2005. Also stalling the plans for a marker was the continued...

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...