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

Love and Death in Mississippi

...Zawadski case in my home state, I cannot help but ponder "to live with equal dignity." What is at stake in overturning "religious freedom" laws is more than the "freedom"...

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...

Hijacking Public Housing: A Review of New Deal Ruins

...Polikoff Proposal," Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy 1, no. 1 (Summer 2006), http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/njlsp/v1/n1/4/. Yet, as Goetz poignantly maintains, de-concentrating poverty is not the same as altering the economic...

The Dispossessions of Appalachia: A Review of Ramp Hollow

...Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, loc.gov/resource/nclc.01060. As the western edge of European settlement, the mountainous backcountry of eighteenth-century Appalachia briefly represented a space of relative freedom from state...

Writing Appalachia

...Alabama and Georgia northeast to the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Labrador, and from the Piedmont through the western rim of the Cumberland Plateau as far as Ohio. However,...