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

Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus

...on specific actions or policies of the school board (79). This occurred, too, alongside Wake County's own political revolution (27). The county had consistently backed Democratic gubernatorial and presidential candidates...

The Bulletin—October 2, 2012

...James Meredith enrolled at the university amid violent riots in 1962. National Public Radio marked the anniversary on its Morning Edition, Tell Me More, and All Things Considered programs by...

Living Across Borders: Guatemala Maya Immigrants in the US South

...cost of housing and safer neighborhoods that the South seemed to offer.12Mary Odem, “Global Lives, Local Struggles: Latin American Immigration to Atlanta,” Southern Spaces, May 19, 2006, https://southernspaces.org/2006/global-lives-local-struggles-latin-american-immigrants-atlanta; Odem and...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...vernacular dialect; ludicrous or crudely comic situations often involving violence; trickster figures; local lore and rural community customs. Although the southwestern humorists were generally well-placed southern gentlemen, what happens in...

Roadside Architecture

...small-town settings. None of the structures depicted was designed to be beautiful, at least in any consciously architectural or aesthetic sense. Each is above all functional, its physical form deriving...