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

North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements Project

...Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) have launched the North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project, a database of all known runaway slave ads in North Carolina newspapers between 1751 and...

The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education

...in education—discrimination that prevailed, with official approval, for the first 165 years of this Nation’s constitutional history,” he wrote. “That governmental interest substantially outweighs whatever burden denial of tax benefits...

Residues of Border Control

...found and photographed are often private and reveal the identity of border crossers. Some have actual identifying potential, as they contain the border crossers’ DNA. The portrayal of everyday objects...

Changing Places, Changing Lives

...have become permanent inmates of a carceral landscape: mute and nearly mummified human sacrifices to a commodity-producing global machinery. Damian Alan Pargas does not quibble with the argument that slaveholding...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...histories and production of Hollywood dramatizations. Still, COVID-19 has the potential to propel high-value learning and positive changes at the individual, organizational, and societal levels. Among the nation's earliest and most...

Writing Appalachia

...media. These forces have virtually obliterated traditional agrarian Appalachia, although an interest in local foods in the region, part and parcel of a larger local foods movement in the United...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...produces ecological disasters as well as economic, political, and social inequalities.3Ann Pettifor, The Case for the Green New Deal (London: Verso, 2019). The American version of the Green New Deal...

Bodies and Souls

...immersive style for Bodies and Souls. My goal was to allow the viewer an opportunity to feel part of Jonestown, to feel immersed in the fabric of the community, to...