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

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...used to think backwater meant remote or backward, out of date, a place of stagnant poverty. But found the term in history means across the mountain watershed where rivers run...

Cultivating Freedom: A Review of Bobby Smith’s Food Power Politics

...“Mound Bayou,” Mississippi Encyclopedia, July 11, 2017, https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/mound-bayou/. At its height, Mound Bayou, the “Jewel of the Delta,” housed successful Black businesses, a public school system, and a community-run hospital.2Rosen,...