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

Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander

...from “Six Yellow Stanzas,” exploring legibility, estrangement, and connections to New Orleans Part 6: Alexander discusses black migration experience in her family, her use of direct address, and reads from “Georgia...

They Never Witnessed Such a Melodrama

...the opera house, so that an otherwise all too typical lynching became national, and even international, news. The story, for instance, appeared in a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, along...

Reframing Resistance: A Review of Freedom Now!

...Press of Mississippi, 1995), Local Heroes Changing America: Indivisible (New York: W.W. Norton, 2000), and One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia (Chapel Hill: University...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...laws resulting in racial discrimination. The Court's decision will likely unleash a new round of widespread discrimination in voting across the nation and continues its section-by-section destruction of the law...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...I set out to see the exhibit in New York I knew it would be ugly. I did not know it would also be chillingly, lyrically beautiful. And this beauty,...

The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

...spots" that change in intensity as events occur in specific sites. At the time, this seemed very new and different and it didn't seem complicated to identify characters, events, and...