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

"When I Say 'Steal,' Who Do You Think Of?"

...County High School when it was racially segregated and entered the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa a year after George Wallace "stood in the schoolhouse door." Here in Tuscaloosa, she...

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

...don't, don't because they know the younger vets shuck off these dark expeditions to me, thinking it's my job, not theirs, because I've done it so long I'm used to...

Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina

...deal with it. Now, that's God's will. It makes us a stronger person." Doormat from house soon to be removed from I-26, Sprinkle Creek, NC, 1996. Photo courtesy of Rob...

CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

...a public health series covering the pandemic: https://southernspaces.org/2022/covid-19-lessons-ignorance/. Far too much had to be cobbled together on the fly in early 2020 largely because of prior organizational neglect. And far...

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

...to Use Covid-19 Relief Funds to Build Prisons," CNN, October 1, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/politics/alabama-covid-relief-prison-bills-signed-governor-kay-ivey/index.html. Despite the uneven distribution of aid, many people, specifically children and elders, moved above the poverty line...

Bricking the Church

Poem Robert Morgan reads his poem "Bricking the Church," 2014. Bricking the Church At the foot of Meetinghouse Hill where once the white chapel pointed among junipers and pulled a...

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