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

The Bulletin—March 20, 2013

...which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...is how most smuggling worked, and in many ways this is how it still works. Sometimes border people felt they should not have to pay extra for ordinary goods that...

The Change

...by landowners, before any*]}*one had seen automated machines that top and prime. While we topped the lavender blooms of many tiny flowers gathered into one,   gorgeous. By grasping hold below...

Darkly

...bones sing in your fingers, cold as galvanized wire. The rest of the way comes from somewhere else. There are many ways to get there and then the one I...

Gold Records in Deep Space

...Musical Journey (New York: Amistad, 2003), 161.  Wenders wanted the old footage to be "the backbone of the second half of [the] film," revealing more than any contemporary interview.2Ibid. Steve...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...the opera house, these men were in some sense recognizing the ways in which entertainment was bound up with violence, as well as the ways in which violence itself was...

The Place of Appalachia

...Appalachian Case (Boone, N.C.: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978); Dwight B. Billings, "Introduction: Writing Appalachia: Old Ways, New Ways, and WVU Ways," in Culture, Class and Politics in Modern Appalachia: Essays...

Local Color

...usually been explained as a passing fancy of national taste, whereby audiences particularly in northern urban locations indulged their curiosity about the out-of-the-way, quaint, disappearing, ways of life associated with...

Baton Rouge, Louisiana images

...2004, there were a number of construction projects underway in downtown Baton Rouge.   Tourist on Docked Riverboat Modern-day riverboats, decorated like their nineteenth-century predecessors, transport tourists up and down...