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

The Bulletin—January 29, 2013

...violated the Tenth Amendment and Article IV of the United States Constitution." The case involves the American Civil Liberties Union, which filed suit on behalf of the Alabama State Conference...

Rosa Snoddy's Handkerchief Quilt [ca 1905]

...late-nineteenth century, bandannas manufactured in American factories were ubiquitous. They remain among the most widely recognized textile products. Among the cotton mills of Spartanburg County, the Clifton Manufacturing Company produced...

Jake Adam York Interviews Natasha Trethewey

...American Library Association. She won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her third collection, Native Guard. Natasha serves as a producer for the Southern Spaces series Poets in Place, in which...

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...is demonstrated to work with other newborns, it will be widely recommended for use around the world. Marco McMillian, an openly gay African American mayoral candidate in Clarksdale, Mississippi, was...

Remnants of Flannery

Flannery O'Connor's place in American literature is undisputed. A master of the short story, her The Complete Stories (1971) was voted the "favorite" of the sixty fiction winners of the...

Karen Beck Pooley on Defining Diversity in Segregated Cities

...Pooley examined Atlanta's population shifts, suburbanization patterns, and school performance. Pooley argued that the region's increasingly suburban African American population continues to face segregated housing patterns that undercut their ability...

The Colonialist's Gaze

...suggested that in the on-going process of "Americanization" it might be better if the unfit inhabitants simply "died off."   "Plan of Isabela," illustrated town map from Armstrong's notebooks. Image...