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

The Morning with Many Tongues

Readings Sean Hill reads the poem "Just as Sure." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "Nigger Street 1937." Poem text. Sean Hill reads the poem "The State House Aflame 1833." Poem text....

Open Educational Resources at Southern Spaces

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The Place of Appalachia

...(insider "good," outsider "bad") too often have tended to substitute for deeper social analysis and political critique.2Helen Matthews Lewis, Linda Johnson, and Donald Askins, eds., Colonialism in Modern America: The...

Inside Poor Monkey's

Introduction Poor Monkey's sits in a cotton field in Bolivar County, west of the town of Merigold on the Hiter farm, land worked by members of the same family for...

Authorship in Africana Studies

...of slavery apologists (and later apologists for colonization and segregation), or more likely some rich combination of all these things. The main campus of Johns Hopkins University is built on...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...president Derrick Johnson, former NAACP chair Myrlie Evers, former Governor William Winter, and former state Supreme Court Justice Reuben Anderson. Photograph courtesy of Mississippi Department of Archives and History. How...