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

New Adventures in Tandem Ethnography

...to see something less bound by our disciplines and imaginations. It is also a way to alternatively navigate the space of the anthropological field, here being Chauvin, Louisiana, a small...

Covid Light and Darkness Alike

We can all remember when the Covid reality fully hit, that moment when we were forced to confront the stark news and the hard arrival of abrupt change. I remember...

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

...government also released relief funds to individual state governments, although often these funds did not reach the people who needed them.1Rebecca Riess and Devon M. Sayers, "Alabama Governor Signs Bill...

Sapelo Island Flyover

...and English colonization of Sapelo in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries heavily modified the local ecosystems. Following the American Revolution, alteration of the local environment continued throughout the early to...

Wild Notes: A Review of Dawoud Bey’s Elegy

...level of literal and conceptual “progress,” we also understand that, for the enslaved, a predatory path unfurled. Pulled backward across the center at "Evergreen," we ask, what force carries us...

When the Border Crossed Me

...already known that Mexican people, men mostly, had started coming to central North Carolina. I knew many of them processed hogs or poultry, and that others worked on dairy or...

Brick by Brick: Atlanta’s Collier Heights

...American construction and real estate executive, came on the Atlanta market for $675,000. The listing video characterizes Russell's home as a hub for both real estate transactions, political strategy sessions,...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...cast ballots that carry appropriate weight," Alito writes. "Fraud can also undermine public confidence in the fairness of elections and the perceived legitimacy of the announced outcome." All true statements,...