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

"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"

...earned her B.A. in English with membership in Phi Beta Kappa and Chi Omega sorority, married and gave birth to her first son. While completing her PhD in English Literature...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...Freezing is rare. Rainfall is about 50 inches (127 centimeters) a year, with the majority of precipitation during the May–September hurricane season. Despite the impact of Hurricane Matthew on October...

Editors

...Divide, a New York Times Bestseller, Washington Post Notable Book of 2016, and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner. She is also the author of Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African...

Besieged Terrain

...become the Robinson Forest, with more to follow in the 1820s. Their small homesteads didn't greatly alter the woods. Between 1880 and 1890 the first wave of large scale logging...

The Colonialist's Gaze

...suggested that in the on-going process of "Americanization" it might be better if the unfit inhabitants simply "died off."   "Plan of Isabela," illustrated town map from Armstrong's notebooks. Image...

Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami

...they are often given few opportunities to better understand its complicated past. Cuban refugees aboard the Captain Preston who came to the United States during the Mariel Boatlift, Miami, Florida,...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...the Judiciary Committee, United States Senate, 97th Congress, on S. 1992, April 1982. They are merely "logical" products of Justice Alito's thinking after conferring with his law clerks and perhaps...

Anniversary

...riots where the Greyhound station's been made a museum of itself, what was reflected now etched on the windows, the froth of clubs and chains, even rakes, over the Freedom...