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

Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs

...mill" (25). As industry in Anniston changed, patterns of employment and residence remained the same. As a consequence, over a century later African Americans lived on the most PCB-polluted land...

Remnants of Flannery

...on a journey from which they return changed. As a writer of fiction and drama, Drago describes O'Connor's influence: "[Her] work has absolutely influenced my fiction, in much the same...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...is of course implied here.) Walker's critique of Faulkner's fiction using his public pronouncements in advocating gradualism in relation to change in racist policies as a lens for critique is...

When the Border Crossed Me

...began to learn that I was caught up in a globalizing system of economic exchange and interdependency. That day I became part of the process too many have dismissed and...

Birth Right

...provider due to shortages in their communities."3Health Insurance Reform and Alabama: The Case for Change. Healthreform.gov. Citing the Office of Shortage Designation, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services...

Sowing The Seed Underground

Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...

How I Shed My Skin

...resolute honesty, charting slow, hard-earned change and the author's ongoing efforts to unlearn the lessons of childhood. Integration's chief foe, he suggests, is the hardwired racism of "good people" (72)—a...