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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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Nannie's Stone: Commemoration and Resistance

...north. Over the first half of the nineteenth century, the numbers of enslaved in the District of Columbia declined. By 1850 (when Nannie was two years old) 3,185 of the 13,746...

Packin' Four Corner Nabs

...if you’re a stacker pull and pack ten filled and wrapped on belt conveyors drop in cardboard containers pull ten more till ten times ten makes one hundred count boxes--...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...a cracked womb. His song will never be earth or flesh. 3. Tuscaloosa sleeps in the water stirs the silt of blues makes music of ashes feeds death clotted anger...

Stones and Shadows

1. Visiting the Stone The air in the car is thick and still. My father makes a right turn through the cemetery gates, giving me a significant look. I don't...

The Mystery of the Great Blue Heron

...poet makes sounds like prayer, but the heron is merely annoyed, stepping into the air and pulling with broad wings. The poet carefully records a sacred text, but the heron...

The Black Civil Rights Movement on the Border

...He discusses the borderlands as concept and geographical space only in his introduction. Civil Rights in the Texas Borderlands makes surprisingly little effort to locate El Paso within this context...

Born In Violent Conquest: A Review of Jacksonland

...on the nation's capital and Jackson's presidency, Inskeep makes removal too much the president's story, erasing complexities of antebellum political life. A more significant problem lies in Inskeep's inattention to...

Open Access Week: The HathiTrust Ruling and Fair Use

...develop. As Sag's list makes clear, the HathiTrust case represents a major victory for libraries, universities, and the Digital Humanities community. The American Library Association and the Library Copyright Association...

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...how Southern Spaces makes sure that we’re sending the highest quality work to peer reviewers.   Once authors have received their peer review feedback, we begin the final round of...