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

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...Congress in 2006 after lawmakers concluded that racial discrimination during elections, redistricting, and voter registration did, indeed, still exist. In 2011, Shelby County—an Alabama county that previously fell under the...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...Studies at the University of Alabama. Infrastructure Seen and Unseen: An Excerpt from Petrochemical America by Kate Orff Infrastructure Louisiana's natural geography has been radically repurposed into a vast network...

Remembering Jake Adam York (1972–2012)

Jake Adam York during an interview with Natasha Trethewey, 2008. Jake Adam York served faithfully on the Southern Spaces editorial board. His insight, enthusiasm, and generosity will be missed. Jake Adam...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...from Vernon, Alabama, sitting in his shop surrounded by wood-paneled walls decorated with a deer head and trophy fish. According to one of the article’s quoted experts, the South was...

How I Shed My Skin

...Algonquin Books.  The transformations from sixth to seventh grade, from lackadaisical Mr. Vaughn's class to the precise Mrs. Ferguson, from foe to friend of black classmates, helped expose southern white...

Brown, Common Meter, 511t

...impressive hour, And lead to endless day. Chorus:   From White, B.F. The Sacred Harp Revised Cooper edition, Samson, Alabama: Sacred Harp Book Co., 2006. Published: 17 August 2010 ©...

Belle plaine newspaper

...negros [sic] and pounded up a few more. . . . The man may come clear but he will find it a little different than in Alabama and may wait...

Race

Sometimes I think about Great-Uncle Paul who left Tuskegee, Alabama to become a forester in Oregon and in so doing became fundamentally white for the rest of his life, except...