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

Toxic Knowledge: A Review of Baptized in PCBs

...and had PCB body burdens three times that of whites. PCB Activist Herman Frazier protests Monsanto's Sweet Valley/Cobbtown relocation plan, Anniston, Alabama, 1996. Photo by Bill Wilson, Anniston Star. Reproduced...

Encountering COVID

...gas pump this week. Valerie, North Carolina State Senator—December 2020 Photograph of Senator Valerie Foushee courtesy of author. On March 3, I was attending a conference in Charlotte, and I...

A Field Guide to Northeast Alabama

...poem "Bunk Richardson." Jake Adam York reads the poem "Walt Whitman in Alabama." About Jake Adam York Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother,...

States' Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act

...which was delivered at the Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama," January 14, 1963, Alabama Department of Archives and History Digital Collections, http://digital.archives.alabama.gov/cdm/singleitem/collection/voices/id/2952/rec/. George Wallace justified his segregationist stance by invoking states'...

The Liminal Site

Red Mountain Garden Location of Smith's house, Birmingham, Alabama. Copyright GoogleMaps, 2013. My backyard garden is sited on the steep north slope of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama, about sixty...