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

Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami

...of English and American Studies at Oxford College, Emory University. His work is featured in Southern Spaces, south, Pop Matters, and Mississippi Quarterly. Julio Capó Jr. is an associate professor...

Undoing the Voting Rights Act

...Rights Resurgent: The Attack on the Voting Rights Act," Southern Spaces, August 29, 2013, https://southernspaces.org/2013/states-rights-resurgent-attack-voting-rights-act. As a result, by voiding Section 5 and now greatly weakening Section 2, the Court...

A City Divided

...(though obviously these codes could and were violated).9On racial social codes, see Leon Litwack, Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (New York: Knopf, 1998).  Perhaps the mixed-race, mixed...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...a threat to "the southern way of life" that they tortured and killed him? How could a Mississippi court exonerate them? The story haunts us still, and more important, it...

Hurricane Helene Visits Marshall, North Carolina

...Katrina in New Orleans, Hugo in South Carolina, Floyd in Eastern North Carolina, and now, Helene in my backyard.          There are similarities between the four. The mud. The displaced buildings...

The Digital Yoknapatawpha Project

...Turner, of H-Southern-Lit, and is a contributing editor for Digital Yoknapatawpha. About the Interviewers This interview was conducted by Southern Spaces staff members Sarah Van Horn Melton and Emma Lirette....

The Shenandoah Valley

...the mountains west and north. In part because of its heavy settlement from Pennsylvania, the Valley has been called "a world between," or the "third South," part of middle America,...