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

Ossabaw Island Flyover

...inland ecosystems of Ossabaw, especially the maritime forests and salt marshes, were altered considerably by this agriculture. Following the American Civil War, a significant population of African Americans stayed on...

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

...Trait in Brazil," BioSocieties 16 (2021): 492–513; Creary, "Biocultural Citizenship and Embodying Exceptionalism: Biopolitics for Sickle Cell Disease in Brazil," Social Science & Medicine 199 (2018): 123–131; Melissa Creary, Paul Fleming,...

Birth Right

...areas of the state are medically underserved, frequently impoverished, and suffer from higher infant and maternal mortality rates. According to a report by the American Hospital Association, between 1980 and...

Saints at the River and Selected Poems

...every burden her life had carried so far, open a room for this new becoming as her body flowed around her man like water. August, 1959: Morning Service   Beside...

1108 Dynamite Hill

...the civil rights movement, Drew was inspired to be his neighborhood's oral historian: "The people who can tell the story are dying off."  Long before Birmingham was a center of...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...be "the president of all the people." But most of the people in this seventy-percent African American city demonstrated their solidarity by staying away. "McCain's policies unify us," said lawyer...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...22 Apr. 1911, 12; Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal, 13 May 1911, 1. The NAACP wrote to both President Taft and Kentucky governor Augustus Wilson in protest. This national attention compelled Governor...