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

Deep Ellum Blues

...ownership of all its public land, making the State of Texas the nation's largest land promoter, aside from Uncle Sam himself. And in Texas, no city was so conceived and...

1108 Dynamite Hill

Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265&amp Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...

Separate and Unequal Schools: The Past Is Future

...assisting mostly middle-class families but their analysis lumps together zip codes with median household incomes with those more than twice the state median. In Florida, Step Up for Students expanded...

"Aint that Something?"

Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...

Three Poems and a Critique of Postracialism

...is to his great niece or her readers. All struggle to read his codes and caesuras. As the poem transitions back to the story proper, racial intelligibility is once again...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...codes of conduct—likely resulting in civil litigation. In Mississippi, second-class citizenship remains under the aegis of special "religious liberty" measures for a bigoted few. HB 1523 is an attack on...