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

At Liberty (1961)

21 September 1961, Liberty, Mississippi Everyone will say he drove to the gin with a truck full of cotton so he drives to the gin and gets in line, and...

The Boatloads

...the roll. But before he's halfway through, there's pushing at the back of the line and no relief in sight. In the end, Charon must abandon formality, must drop the...

The Dirt Eaters

Southern Tradition of Eating Dirt Shows Signs of Waning —headline, The New York Times, 2/14/84 tra dition wanes I read from North ern South: D.C. Never ate dirt but I...

Six Yellow Stanzas

...bedroom: things that are yellow and yellow alone.   Published in Body of Life (Chicago: Tia Chucha Press, 1996). Published: 10 December 2009 © 2009 Elizabeth Alexander and Southern Spaces...

Darkly

...— how'd they get there, Edwards in their hands, along the roads so many others took to church or to the movies or home along the same white lines? To...

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...studies; critical regional studies; African American, Indigenous, and American studies; women's and gender studies; LGBTQ studies, public health; and social justice. A digital publication, Southern Spaces provides an open access...

LiFT Art Salon: Hammonds House II

...family vacations included mandatory excursions to museums, libraries, and historical sites. To ensure that my little brother and I "enjoyed" cultural experiences of all stripes, we toured the Smithsonian in...

MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection

...Rare Book Library recently acquired several independent black comic book series as part of a concerted effort to expand the African American periodicals collection. The three-volume trade paperback Brotherman: Dictator of Discipline is...

The Bulletin—April 3, 2013

...of racial and ethnic minorities; Middle Atlanta is split along ethnic and ideological lines; while North Side voters are more conservative and are generally white. The blog "Blogging While Blue: News...