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

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

...vaccines available for over two years. Shutdowns and enforced quarantines ended, even in holdout nations. The WHO's announcement signaled that other countries, including the United States, would follow suit if...

Living with the Ghosts of Queer Pasts

...Since the 1970s, queer history projects have flourished across the United States. New archives are forged from the remains stowed away in activists' attics and closets. Oral history collections are...

Sweep

...reclaim. Because I don't get home much anymore, I notice the smallest scintilla of change, every burnt-out trailer and newly paved road, and the larger, slower change that is exponential,...

Love and Death at Second-Line

...and fancy dresses, hot colors and cool hairdos. They were alternately somber or cheered as the mood of the music changed: slow dirge, medium hymn, fast march. Probably 2,500 made...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

..."part of a larger effort to slow down the changes engulfing the South."9"Another monument," The Anniston Star, November 21, 2005. Also stalling the plans for a marker was the continued...

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...