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

New Shades o'Death Creek

Excerpt Set in West Virginia, this excerpt from Giardina's novel of time-space travel, Fallam's Secret (2003), evokes the physical and emotional landscapes of mountaintop removal in the southern Appalachians. On...

Sowing The Seed Underground

Presentation Part 2: Ray overviews the modern extinction of many food seed varieties and the industrialization of US agriculture About the Author Janisse Ray was born in Baxley, Georgia, in 1962...

Theories of Time and Space

...of shrimp boats are loose stitches in a sky threatening rain. Cross over the man-made beach, 26 miles of sand dumped on the mangrove swamp—buried terrain of the past. Bring...

Birdhouses

...said her first word: burrr. Despite my ignorance of birds, I have made many photographs of birdhouses that accumulate in a series called Southern Places. I take most of the...

Piedmont Blues

Figure 2.1: The Piedmont. Map courtesy of  James W. Clay and Paul D. Escott, Land of the South (Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1989.) Although the Piedmont plateau stretches from New...

Public School Politics: A Review of The End of Consensus

...a diversity policy as a central feature" (106). Student assignments—either parent-initiated ones (applying to district magnet schools) or district-mandated ones (requiring attendance at a school to balance student populations along...

The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript

...many thereafter, we did not understand what the mark meant. In fact, I am not sure that I do yet."3Frederick Barton, E-mail correspondence, November 24–25, 2008. The codes were one...

The Bulletin—November 1, 2012

...by Republican Governor Rick Scott. While the reduction in early voting was enacted in order to prevent voter fraud, some African Americans in Florida feel that the changes target African...