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

The Bulletin—March 20, 2013

...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

...SECTION 1. The United States shall create a series of commons communities, each designed to include a specified number of households within a larger landscape that will be managed by...

New Shades o'Death Creek

...Hole she said, "Take the Old Road down into the gorge and cross to that overlook on Gauley that John used to like so much." Earl Dotter, Mountaintop removal mine...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

Essay In one of the stranger scenes of this year's presidential campaign marathon, a dozen Gees Bend quilters joined hands with candidate John McCain, singing "Old Ship of Zion" as...

1108 Dynamite Hill

...in Atlanta, Jeff Drew's father, John (1908–1991), co-founded the Alexander Insurance Agency with the mission of providing affordable insurance to Black customers. While a Morehouse student, John Drew met Alfred...

Call for Submissions: Music and the US South

...Scott L. "John Cohen in Eastern Kentucky: Documentary Expression and the Image of Roscoe Halcomb During the Folk Revival." Southern Spaces, August 6, 2008. https://southernspaces.org/2008/john-cohen-eastern-kentucky-documentary-expression-and-image-roscoe-halcomb-during-folk-revival. Miller, Matt. "Dirty Decade: Rap...

Piedmont Blues

...other artists—in this sense, he was a synthesizer of styles, parallel in many ways to Robert Johnson." Also similar to Johnson, Fuller lived the hard blues life, dying at the...