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

The Black Belt

...Henry Wellge & Co. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g3974s.pm000090/ Through violence, appeals to white supremacy, and massive voter fraud, the Black Belt's oligarchs defeated...

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...area and to the vast number of absentee landowners. Natural resource identification, mapping, and purchasing occurred as early as the eighteenth century, but these absentee holdings could not be fully...