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

The Bulletin—June 19, 2013

...procedural rules that give Democrats a strong voice in legislative debates." The North Carolina NAACP has organized a series of protests every Monday since April 29, 2013 in opposition to cuts in...

Roadside Architecture

...in north Mississippi and regionally around the rest of the "mid-South." I'd spent major portions of my childhood summers in North Carolina and lived in Texas as an adult, but...

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...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...(Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2014), 203–223. In light of all this mayhem and confusion, Díaz draws on a rich variety of sources to make a most...

Dirty Little Story

Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...