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

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...Showcased its 'Textualist' Double Standard on Voting Rights,"  Washington Post, July 1, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/01/supreme-court-alito-voting-rights-act/. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Martin Luther King, Jr., at the signing of the Voting...

Scarecrow

...hang And keep your eyes straight, You will see a poplar At the far edge of the field. There, A body once swayed, Burning from foot to breast. The crows...

Atchison newspaper

...there the matter will end for all time. 'It will not look right to eastern people if we do not condemn the lynching,' said one legislator yesterday,'but personally I approve...

Julius Hartman

..."The low green valley that borders Ponce de Leon creek has long been noted for its reposeful beauty. "Ponce de Leon spring bubbles up at its eastern extremity, and the...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

She follows the river trail downstream, leaving behind her parents and younger brother who till eat their picnic lunch. She is twelve years old and it is her school's Easter...

Prayer of the Backhanded

...best beatings lack Intention, the mark of the beast. Bring back to life the son Who glories in the sin Of immediacy, calling it love. God, save the man whose...

Farmland Blues: The Legacy of USDA Discrimination

...Timothy Pigford testified before a House subcommittee and recounted his experiences in eastern North Carolina. After attending the University of North Carolina at Wilmington for several years in the late...

The Bulletin—September 21, 2012

...sea bass and red snapper are costing Southeast and Gulf Coast states nearly one hundred million dollars in combined losses resulting from fewer fishing trips for those species. The past...

The Bulletin—August 9, 2012

...the company. The importance of the plant to the economic vitality of the town, and the importance of healthcare benefits to its workers recalls a similar relationship in nearby east...

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...in the University's Utopian Landscapes."Southern Spaces, May 13, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/other-side-paradise-glimpsing-slavery-universitys-utopian-landscapes. Dotter, Earl. "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment." Southern Spaces, July 16, 2008, https://southernspaces.org/2008/coalfield-generations-health-mining-and-environment.  Easton, Terry. "Geographies of Hope and...