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

Genres of Southern Literature

...from the "anti-Tom" novels crafted in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin down to such blockbuster historical epics of the Civil Rights Era as Alex Haley's Roots, Ernest...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

...paraphernalia from the civil rights movement, sold at the National Civil Rights Museum, Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tennessee, March 31, 2013. Photograph of postcard courtesy of Erick Alvarado. © Erick Alvarado,...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...on native fishing rights. Inspired by civil rights sit-ins and organized by the Survival of the American Indian Society, these protests at Frank's Landing in Puget Sound sought to prevent...

The Carolina Piedmont

...that connected mountains with coast. Faced with increasing white numbers and hostility, as well as the ravages of smallpox and the occupation of their familiar territory, natives desperately sought strategies...

The Shenandoah Valley

...wrote, "On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in...

COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health

...in the 1990s, modeled to a significant extent on the 1960s US Civil Rights Movement, demanded the right to healthcare. Black participants in my Brazilian study deployed policy-based attempts to achieve...