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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

...Manufacture of PCB," and lastly, "Responsible Approach." Reproduced from Baptized in PCBs, 144. Courtesy of Ellen Spears. Pollution accompanied this productivity. In the 1930s, Anniston residents complained that dust and...

MARBL Highlights: The Black Comic Books Collection

...the first black-owned comic book series to reach national acclaim, Brotherman sold approximately 750,000 issues worldwide on the independent circuit. Before Dwayne McDuffie’s Milestone Comics made a splash by adding numerous black...

Envisioning Faulkner and Southern Literature

...and Act (New York: Random House, 1964). From the outset, poet and some-time novelist Allen Tate questioned the appropriateness of the word "renaissance," concluding that this literary outpouring "was more...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...as environmentalism. Excluded groups link their appreciation of nature and desire for healthy surroundings to a broader vision of social justice inseparable from full social and political rights. Dr. Carver...

The Nature of Rights

...nature” is a strategy as much a movement, a strategy that can promote democracy through local involvement.[17] In this era of increasing assaults on the democratic rights of humans, expanding...

Rethinking the Geography of Lynching

...essays is puzzling. In making the case for the significance of his approach, Pfeifer dismisses the value of other approaches to the topic—an unfortunate, but all too common, academic habit....