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

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

...New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. She has published several books of poems, including: The Venus Hottentot (1990), Body of Life (1996), Antebellum Dream Book (2001), and American...

Sankofa Series: What Must Be Remembered

...Company dating to ca. 1860.2This passbook is housed in the African American Miscellaneous Collection in Emory University’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library. Passbooks were used during...

COVID-19: Lessons in Ignorance

...Cannot Do in a Time of Pandemic," Scientific American, February 2, 2021, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-science-can-and-cannot-do-in-a-time-of-pandemic/.  Sports celebrities and other influencers joined in; some publicly declined vaccinations for spurious or unspoken reasons. In...