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

The South as Foil: A Review of This Is Not Dixie

...a compelling narrative benefitted white people, but also how African Americans used the Free State Legend to sway white behavior. His examination of black resistance complicates older notions about accommodation...

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...one of the most famous women in America. Local officials locked her up to keep her away from strike zones, but she always said she could raise more hell in...

The Cobb County Braves

...closest Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) station is a mile away contributed to the Braves' unhappiness with their current facility. Atlanta Braves vice president of operations Mike Plant stated,...

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Untitled Opening from Pinion: An Elegy

  In the dream that recurs, like a bird returning, the place is still as it was—as though they went away, years ago, fully intending to be back by first...

Walt Whitman in Alabama

Maybe on his way to Gadsden, Queen City of the Coosa, to speak with the pilots and inland sailors, to cross the fords Jackson ran with blood or meet the...

An Absence I Know I Won't Reclaim

...Jones talks with Natasha Trethewey about the subjects of their poetry. The conversation includes: how writers find ways to get beyond their own experiences; psychological exile from regional homeland; Jones's...