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

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...American political sociologist John Gaventa initiated a videotape conversation between rank and file coal miners in South Wales and Appalachia. Attending Oxford University with filmmaker Richard Greatrex, Gaventa initially documented...

Gold Records in Deep Space

The more that traces of American roots music are turned into prized relics, the more lifeless the music becomes. Only by acknowledging roots music's ephemeral and fragile qualities do its...

Beasts of the Southern Wild and Dirty Ecology

...she traverses the squishy soil around her claptrap, rickety house. In the film's opening scenes the screen floods with light when the Bathtub's bright revelry spills over and neons the...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

...paraphernalia from the civil rights movement, sold at the National Civil Rights Museum, Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee, March 31, 2013. Photograph of postcard courtesy of Erick Alvarado. © Erick Alvarado,...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...Atlanta was Anniston, a "very explosive trouble spot," with violent Klan activity, noted the Riders' advance reports.2Arsenault, Freedom Riders, 97, quoting Tom Gaither's report in advance of the rides.  At...

Anniversary

Readings Jake Adam York reads the poem "Anniversary." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Consolation." Poem text. Jake Adam York reads the poem "Darkly." Poem text. Jake Adam...

Selma Bridge: Always Under Construction

...place forgotten since the mid-1960s by the GOP, except when persecuting voting rights activists. With McCain's dismal civil rights record throughout years in Congress, including his (later retracted) opposition to...

Watching the Surface for a Sign

...University of Georgia Press in 2008. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, and The American Poetry Review, and his honors include fellowships from the National Endowment...