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

Deep in the Cane: The Southern Soul of Gil Scott-Heron

...political imagination. His insistence on detailing social injustices never precluded him from illuminating the South's importance as the incubator of his radical political vision. Scott-Heron's indebtedness to the South and...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...environmental causes have often participated in actions to oppose racial injustice, eliminate poverty, and achieve gender equality. Such alliances have been essential to the success of the environmental movement. "Negroes'...

Southern Spaces Recommends

...critical scholarship, Matt Brim's Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University is at the top of my list right now. Brim reorients queer studies to an anti-elitist and anti-racist...

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...

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology

...feathery anger might frighten him away. Self accusation makes sense in terms of the film's psychological economy, but it also operates in a mythical or cosmic register. According to Chakrabarty,...

Glimpsing Andalusia in the O'Connor-Hester Letters

...John F. "Human Intelligence versus Divine Truth: The Intellectual in Flannery O'Connor's Works." The English Journal 55.9 (Dec. 1966): 1144.  In another letter, O'Connor praises one of Hester's own fictional...