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

Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities

...to build wealth through homeownership. This same demographic remains predominantly within segregated schools, a concentration that hampers black students' educational experiences and possibilities. For more insight into segregation across the...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...their inspiration from Birmingham, hundreds of African American high school students demonstrating in support of voting rights were arrested and incarcerated in Selma in the months before March 1965. But...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...tapes to her students at Clinch Valley College in Wise, Virginia. While in Appalachia, Gaventa recorded music-making at the Brookside Strike in Harlan County, Kentucky. In 1975, Lewis expanded this multi-media...

Ars Poetica #100: I Believe

Poetry, I tell my students, is idiosyncratic. Poetry is where we are ourselves (though Sterling Brown said "Every 'I' is a dramatic 'I'"), digging in the clam flats for the...