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

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...low-light prints hone the conflicting experiences of fugitivity, wherein a vast, beautiful, open landscape signals exposure and vulnerability while the claustrophobic cover of tree branches means safety and protection. On...

Besieged Terrain

...and steep and narrow ridgelines and coves. Robinson forest sign in Robinson Forest, Kentucky, June 10, 2008. Photograph by Wikipedia user J654567. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. People love the higher...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...Showcased its 'Textualist' Double Standard on Voting Rights,"  Washington Post, July 1, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/01/supreme-court-alito-voting-rights-act/. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King, Jr., at the signing of the Voting...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...the legitimacy of slavery in American law. Together they counted among the most significant freedom suits in U.S. history. And there were hundreds of others. Yet their particular stories would...

Consolation

...the trees and lay the needle down gunning through the barricades and ROAD CLOSED signs and up the amputated ramp where the bridge should be, the bridge where you stood...

Making History

...with lentils, flash bombs, lo-fi, hi-speed. Somewhere is a petition I should be signing. Somewhere a parakeet is driving a tractor, and I am missing it. A pair of scissors...