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

Reckoning with Enslavement

...thunderous applause erupted in the room. An expectant hush fell across the auditorium as the Reverend Tim Kesicki, a Jesuit priest and president of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and...

Sonic Zora in Florida

...Norton, 1999), 45; Boyd, Wrapped in Rainbows, 324. Hurston's approach to this whole operation was always distinct, always bent on both reproducing precious sounds through her own performance practices and...

Birth Right

...Statistical Profile. Chicago, IL.  A 2009 report by the Health Resources and Services Administration found that "approximately 888,000 people, or 19 percent of Alabama's population, cannot access a primary care...

Sweep

...for Albert Dotson, Myles Hammond, the quick tackle of our football team, For Don Appleton, the slow, redheaded one. By the time the rack is exhausted, I'm thinking if I...

Brown, Black, and White in Texas

...focus on whiteness ultimately damaged their relations with African Americans," Behnken notes. "By arguing for whiteness, Mexican Americans attempted to destroy Jim Crow as it applied to Mexican-origin people. Since...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...like the honesty of his approach. ("Mr. Thompson decided to use wishful thinking as his guide," wrote Janet Maslin in the New York Times.) Thompson refers to his task as...