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

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...a title, an abstract of less than one hundred words, citations in footnotes, recommended resources (divided into "Text," "Web," "Audio/Video," and "Related Southern Spaces Publications"), and page numbers. Please use...

Sea Changes in Personhood

...outside their immediate context to form a new composite body based on a disorganized reorganization. Allewaert's argument begins even before her words begin with the book's cover image: the face...

When the Border Crossed Me

...the two acres of ripe berries harvested. Soft small bramble fruits are especially vulnerable to heat and they weren't going to wait. Screenshot of the Border Odyssey companion website. I'd...

A City Divided

...the hopes that the black populace would follow. They organized meetings between white political leadership and school and African Methodist Episcopal Church officials. They offered cash. They offered land. And...

Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts

...advancing a fair, democratic society—affirmative action in higher education, LGBTQ rights, Native American sovereignty, the electoral college's essential integrity, and the voting rights of Black citizens. In some of these...

Closer to the Ground: A Conversation with Ann Pancake

...sentimental, full of clenched drama and secrets and surprises but always subtle."5Quotes taken from Pancake's personal website, http://www.annpancake.blogspot.com. Pancake has received the Bakeless Literary Award for short story writing, a...

Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"

...for attendance, brought together an unprecedentedly international group of Sacred Harp singers, and served as revelatory and emotionally overwhelming experiences to attendees. These events also served as sites around which...

Brushes with War

...their own soil.   Michael D. Fay at work at a big airbase called TQ (Al-Taqaddum), Iraq, March 2006. Photograph courtesy of the artist.     Life in Camp, Part...