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

Reconsidering Appalachian Studies

...2.6 jobs for American workers. Asian immigrants frequently come with or earn advanced degrees. What are the policy implications of this phenomenon for the region? What does this blind spot...

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...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...border state, Kentucky had relatively high rates of racial violence, especially in western and central Kentucky, where African Americans were more highly concentrated than in the eastern counties, and where...

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...

The Bulletin—May 29, 2012

...will not approve the plan because it reduces the influence of African American voters across the state. The Alabama Legislative Reapportionment Office details the changes, which reduce the number of...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...produces ecological disasters as well as economic, political, and social inequalities.3Ann Pettifor, The Case for the Green New Deal (London: Verso, 2019). The American version of the Green New Deal...

The Bulletin—May 15, 2012

...campaign against the amendment. Ballotopedia offers a helpful overview of the amendment and the groups campaigning on both sides of the issue. The North Carolina Board of Elections maps the official...