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

Voting Rights: Justice Alito's False, Partisan Facts

...Elmendorf, Nicholas O. Stephanopoulos, and Christopher S. Warshaw In Support of Appellees/Respondents, Merrill v. Milligan, July 18, 2022, 7–8, https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/21/21-1086/230239/20220718132621523_91539%20HARVARD%20BRIEF%20PROOF3.pdf. The brief notes that these numbers do not include settlements....

Antietam

...button, a bullet, a tooth migrating to the surface. We searched around. On our way back to the bus a boy tripped me and I fell— skidding hard along the...

Geography

...of blackberry, the coins flattened on the tracks. We can’t help it— already, we’re leaning too hard toward metaphor: my father searching for the railroad switch. It was here, right...

Homage to Mississippi John Hurt

...fingerpickers, lost in dark mud, two folkies found you in the singing vinyl and asked, "How do you do that with a guitar?" and searched maps of Mississippi for the...

Substantiation

...shade the one eye. A cruiser eases through the streets, searchlight in doorways, the driver white, dressed like a cop but for the rope marks at his throat, the bullet...

Stones and Shadows

...you like to live in New York City?" I search for ways to interrupt, to shut him up. But when I look left, he has become just a voice in...

Darkly

...Kitchen's gone. I can cruise, can walk and search each pane of glass for that wave of heat, the echo that will fill the night fifty years gone when five...

Quilting Conversation

...NAMES Project Foundation. Michael Moon is a professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. In addition to LGBT studies and queer theory, Moon's research concerns modern literature,...