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

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...

Making History

All I know of the Spanish-American War is what Virginia boys, kept safe at college, etched into the mortar with their pencils so that leaning against a brick wall a...

Mapping Souths

...and Slavery in the American Slaves States (1861; New York: Modern Library, 1984), 3. Decoding Trescot's South as (mere) battle slogan, Marx silently generates a battle slogan of his own:...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...a deliberately disruptive way." Interestingly, Gray uses this description of the genre in a book called Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism (2000) and...