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

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

..."The Mercy," "Six Yellow Stanzas," "Georgia Postcard," "The Dirt Eaters," and "Ars Poetica #100: I Believe." About Elizabeth Alexander Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, essayist, playwright, and teacher born in...

The Colonialist's Gaze

Presentation Closer Reading: Three Images from the Presentation Panorama of Armstrong standing at the summit of Signal Hill. Image courtesy of Lanny Thompson, 2017. Standing at the summit of Signal...

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

Introduction (Given by Margaret Rose Gladney) Minnie Bruce Pratt was born September 12, 1946, in Selma, Alabama, in the hospital closest to her hometown of Centreville. She graduated from Bibb...

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

...Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA), which mandated the establishment of a publicly accessible Toxics Release Inventory (TRI). Overseen by the US Environmental Protection Agency, the TRI is...

No Place

Video About the Author Minnie Bruce Pratt's books include The Sound of One Fork (1981), Yours in Stuggle (1984), We Say We Love Each Other (1985), Crime Against Nature (1990),...

"Miking" Against Covid in Bangladesh

Bangladesh. Map by Mysid. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Creative Commons license: CC BY-SA 4.0. As the world moves into its fourth year since the advent of COVID-19, the pandemic remains...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...John Gaventa (left), Helen Lewis (middle), and Richard Greatrex (right), 2014. Video stills by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. In 2012, Tom Hansell (assistant professor of Appalachian Studies...