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

The Sub Series: Henry County, Georgia

Henry County 2008 The subordinate status rhetorically applied to some areas, neighborhoods, and home loans belies a contemporary reality: more US citizens reside in suburbs than in the country or...

Mourning Medgar: Justice, Aesthetics, and the Local

...landscape of Jackson, Mississippi in the summer of 1963 Texts Referenced James Baldwin, Excerpt from Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) Margaret Walker, "Micah" (1970) Eudora Welty, Excerpt from "Where is...

Lyle Saxon and the WPA Guide to New Orleans

...There have been a lot of changes in the cityscape since the New Orleans guide was first released. Upriver from the French Quarter the skyline has become mini-Manhattanized, anchored by...

New Shades o'Death Creek

...and Droop, stretched a flat featureless landscape, dotted here and there by a gray pond. At the near edge a few stunted trees clung to life. "How big is it?"...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...science and technology across the land, by government programs that favored wealthier farmers, and by USDA discrimination. African Americans had continually moved out of the South to escape violence, gain...

Searcy County Livestock Auction

...county's landscape and political economy. I have continued to return almost every year as I work on my dissertation about Mexican guest workers who plant trees for reforestation companies owned...

When the Border Crossed Me

...agriculture. The borderlands overtook me personally and professionally. I cannot escape their meaning—not just down at the southern line below the United States, but the little borders everywhere in our...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...work and see the company as protecting their homes and livelihoods. Many others leave in search of work or to escape the impacts of MTR; steady emigration from the area...