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

The Bulletin—August 9, 2012

...after failing to reach an agreement with the company on a new collective bargaining contract. Specifically, the workers are unwilling to accept the reduction of health care benefits proposed by...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...rights, and spaces demographic shifts in urban, suburban, and rural populations immigration, refugees, and citizenship incarceration, internment, and the carceral state public health, healthcare policy and access climate change and...

Theories of Time and Space

...you must carry — tome of memory, its random blank pages. On the dock where you board the boat for Ship Island, someone will take your picture: the photograph —...

Vestibule

...love. I don't just want to thank her for giving me the trump card — "house of worship" — I hold in every stupid party game that begins, "Where's the...

Anniversary

...slumped in the street, and Seigenthaler, who tried to stop this, beaten down and shoved beneath his car, the police just blocks away. Whenever water's broken water moves to mend,...

Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later

Video Part 2: Dr. Crimmins discusses the Lane Brothers photograph collection, highlighting Atlanta's physical and cultural landscapes Part 3: Dr. Holmes examines how voter registration and Atlanta politics play into...

The Place of Appalachia

Essay How might spatial theory help us understand the political significance and potential of the diverse, place-based struggles documented in Transforming Places? First, place matters in the pursuit of social...

Mapping Souths

...Carolina at Greensboro, is also the author of The Narrative Forms of Southern Community. Acknowledgments This excerpt from Scott Romine's The Real South: Southern Narrative in the Age of Cultural Reproduction (Baton...

Memorializing the Freedom Riders

...1961. Courtesy of Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. On May 14, 1961, a Greyhound bus carrying seven Freedom Riders, organized by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), traveled south from Atlanta...