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

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...representatives of labor unions from across the country—longshoremen, flight attendants, municipal employees, as well as members of the United Mine Workers of America from West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,...

Backcountry Legends of a Minister's Death

...of Presbyterians who kept hallooing and whooping without Door like Indians." He calls them "Ignorant, mean, worthless, beggarly Irish Presbyterians, the Scum of the Earth, and Refuse of Mankind."5Woodmason, 17,...

St. Catherines Island Flyover

...is a professor of practice in the department of Environmental Sciences at Emory University. His publications include Life Traces of the Georgia Coast (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013). Michael Page...

"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh

...as well as a reduction in barriers to vaccine confidence. COVID-19 continues to pose a significant public health concern for many countries, like in India. While Bangladesh faces various health...

The Dirt Eaters

...lay on Great- grandma's grave when I was small. "Most cultures have passed through a phase of earth- eating most pre valent today among rural Southern Black women." Geo Phagy:...

Frank Willis

...called "civic," the things you had to know. Today in some way I somehow care that Frank Willis lives with his mother, without employ, was arrested for stealing a $12...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

"The Nation and the Negro," The Schwartz Center for Performing Arts, February, 2013. Photograph by Paige Knight. Courtesy of Pellom McDaniels III and Paige Knight. "The Nation and the Negro"...